Head-ON With Robyn Roxanne Kincaid - Head-ON With Roxanne Kincaid, Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Episode Date: August 19, 2026

Is every MAGAT in a position of power a disgusting predator? TW/CW Exhibit 9274138275925: Mike Caruso, until recently a dear ally of Monkey Up DeKlantis. Fox ex-Marine trashes sailors aboard the Lincoln. News of another broken down warship. White supremacist was the driving force behind a young academic's recent suicide. 

The password is Petard. Here we go, live from behind the corn phone curtain. It's head-on with Roxanne Kincaid. Three hours of cussin and discussing with America's only liberal trans-billy elitist right here, right now, on the head-on radio network.

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And so consequently, thanks go out to our 18th day of the month subscribers and contributors. via PayPal. And thank you, therefore, to Charlene in Rokes Island. And thank you to Joy in Ann Arbor, who, by the way, sent me a message this morning after yesterday's program. And I quote, God damn it, I was about to have breakfast. So, yeah, your humble hostess. strikes again.

But thank you one and all for keeping this program on the air and helping out in that manner. So Auntie Kat's challenge is on the table, and it has $400 more to go to its completion. Could we do that this evening, please? Just pay the bills, get the monkeys off the back for another 30 days. And, well, you know, make sure I don't get pulled over because I got to get my sticker and pay my personal property taxes and, you know, keep the pretty, although aged, little Ford sedan on the road, little Miss Bianca. there's $400 to go. And when we raised the $400th dollar, we knocked out 100 of it yesterday,

when we raised the $400th dollar, Auntie Cat is going to kick in 500 and another 500, and we will be fully funded through now, you know, in August. Thank you so much Auntie Kat and thank you to everybody who jumps in. Fingers crossed, pretty please. Yeah. Now, about that password, Pettard. Let's, I mean, there's, there's, there's all manner of madness to go into this evening.

But I saw this story earlier today and it was like, damn, you know, those chickens. they do have a way of coming home to roost, don't they? And in particular, well, let's go ahead and issue the trigger warning and the content warning because this is nothing short of horrifying and disgusting. But will the, I'm sort of killing time in case this is something you want to not hear. It's going to take a couple of minutes. Oh, by the way, sorry about that, Reggie down in southwest Arkansas. Hope 33 miles, Texarkana, 46 miles.

Yesterday's show, my sound level dropped 70 to 80 percent just as our hostess went live. I don't know why that is. Now, just purely from a technical angle, when I'm here, it's on one mission, I'm broadcasting through one audio interface when I'm back at the fabulous horn studios at the magnificent Kincaid Mansion. It's another interface. They are not identical. But I try to keep the levels similar on. because we do use the same streaming interface, the software interface. I don't know.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Reggie. I wish I could do something about it, but it's largely beyond my control. And, of course, yesterday I also mentioned that I was rather addled what with all the flooding going on. Hopefully the waters are going down now. We actually had a blue sky kind of day. today and got a break from the rains and i i hope they got a break down uh down in uh on the on the on the um rim of the new river gorge as well we need it we need it um maybe it's the hope maybe maybe maybe it's

raining on this mica now she said that uh michigan is a a veritable tender box i don't know but i hope y'all get some relief But thanks for letting me know, Reggie. I do. I appreciate it. Oh, and well, okay, before we get into the horrifying story, I got a note from Carl and out in Arizona earlier this afternoon. And Carl voiced some things that I think are probably, well, you know how it is with the

horn hive mind. if one person's thinking it probably others are as well and let me preface this by saying i know these are hard times and i know how mentally exhausting it is because well i do this three hours a night five nights a week and it's sort of you know some some days it's like well coffee breaks coffee breaks over, back on your heads. But Carl writes, Putin's puppet. Hi, Roxanne. Hi, Carl. I have to admit that I've been in a deep state of despair about this country and where we're heading. I've lost a lot of hope, given the sense of complacency and ignorance among our populace, our elected officials, and most importantly, the media. Without the media's complicity in the destruction of our democracy,

most of what we're now experiencing would not be happening. Without reporters and journalists are more focused on clicks and likes online and keeping their jobs. I will add, Carl, also with writing Profit Sponge books with tell all stories that the American people needed to hear maybe two years ago. than they are about doing real investigative research and journalism. If they had, they would recognize what any student of the tactics of the former Soviet Union and authoritarianism can plainly see. That is that our country is being destroyed from within by the orange POS with huge assistance from the Kremlin. He is the closest thing to the Manchurian candidate that we have ever had. Here, Donald, play a little solitaire.

Mm-hmm. He's a traitor and a conman who cares only about money and protecting himself. I'm thoroughly convinced that everything we are seeing in our country, including taking away food security, housing, and health care from the majority of us, especially targeting those with the least means, war crimes across the world and in Iran, destroying our friendships with allies, destroying our economic security, raiding the United States of its riches and wealth, decapitating and diminishing our military, tearing up and trashing our reputation across the planet,

and so much more, which leads me to my terrifying conclusion. Trump and his cohorts are too stupid to devise the devilishness to cause all of this themselves. There's no denying that Trump is a willing agent of Putin to destroy the United States completely and finally. I also now believe that we are on the precipice of horrors we could never have imagined. So terrible, I won't detail here. Please tell me I'm wrong, but I don't think I am. I never imagined I would believe any of this before, but I do. World War III has begun.

This sucks. Well, Carl, I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong. Oh, no, I'm definitely not going to tell you that you're wrong. And in fact, as you allude, there are probably more facts to indicate how right, you are than anything that would negate the ideas that you have put forward. And, well, it's hard to pinpoint one thing and one thing in particular. Mother Russia is targeting our country. And the thing is, when we, how to put this?

when we screwed up in the past we we could be fairly confident that we had done it all by ourselves like a big grown-up country the well the dim leaders idiotic war of choice against the innocent people of iraq for one the afgh the afghanistan debacle which was three well four presidents long but they were our screw-ups, which meant that they could be perhaps remedied by ourselves. You cannot say the same thing of the machinations and maladies and foobars of this gang of acolytes and licks to an orange monstrosity. You are right, Carl, to look toward the Kremlin. You're absolutely right.

It's almost an inescapable conclusion for anybody with real meaningful brain cells that fire one to another to another, you know, millions of times over. But there are some, you know, but there's, no, nitwit Nero is not sharp enough to come up with any of this. but we do have people who work overtime to come up with this kind of evil. Were they inspired by, say, things going on in Mother Russia? Absolutely. Look, for instance, no further than the Heritage Foundation there on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. Used to walk by there quite often because there was a lovely little bakery and I'd go there city living. I'd just walk from our apartment up to a little bakery and literally get our daily bread, our pan quix d'Idiere.

And I'd always look at that building, multi-stories, and think, good Lord, it really does need the eye of Sauron on top of it. Because just about every horror that has been visited upon the United States has been visited as a result. of what happens inside the Heritage Foundation, which in turn is a byproduct of Lewis Powell's memo in the 1970s that so inspired right-wing conservatism, fascism, that Lewis Powell was rewarded with a seat upon the Supreme Court of the United States. He told American capital, American money, American right-wing fascism to start pumping resources into creating organizations that could

work toward relentlessly changing who we were as a nation and dragging us backward into the nightmare from which we had emerged, the nightmare of the misogyny, racism, sexism, xenophobia, all the things that made America a nightmare for marginalized people. And at the head of that operation, none other than Russell vote. And so when it comes to, for instance, the dodgy boys and their Cheeto dust-covered dodgy boys down in their mama's basements and in cells with, you know, one hand typing. That's the Heritage Foundation. That's Project 2025, the rape of government. But it goes further back than that. Who was that, who was that tax-obsessed Yahoo, who said he wanted to make American government small enough to drown it in the bathtub? It's an undercurrent that

has run through so-called conservatism in this country. But the heavy, lifting was done in the past few years by Russell vote and his gang of fascist goons at the Heritage Foundation. But for instance, when it comes to attacking marginalized communities like the LGBTQ community, yeah, they took their template, excuse me, they took their template directly from Moscow where LGBT people are routinely imprisoned, be able to. beaten, murdered, for simply being alive and not closeted. And now, as I noted yesterday, according to Marginal Trailer Queen, they're actually having conversations in the White House about nuking Iran.

The horror. The horror. That in turn would, of course, get most likely, because we don't know what kind of backroom deals a country like Iran has. they might have a deal with China. They might have a deal with Mother Russia. So that if nitwit near a nuke's Tehran, well, that would be a first strike,

nuclear weapons use, the United States being the only country ever to use an atomic or nuclear weapon in a first strike. And that would probably trigger, say, oh, I don't know, D.C. getting nuked. And Tel Aviv and J. Jerusalem getting newped? Because once that genie pops out of the bottle, there goes the neighborhood.

Not the neighborhood being this planet, as noted yesterday, the only planet that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt to house life. Right? Damn. So, yeah, Carl, you're not being alarmist. You are unfortunately being a realist. Well, you're not far off, Jeremy. Have you asked through smoke signals if you need to arrive back at the mansion, one if I see or two if I land? I'm told that everything at the mansion is a okay.

I've been watching West Virginia's road monitors to find out if the rest. road I take home from Charleston is open and it says it is. It's not, it's not, but then again, these are flash floods. And the way flash floods work, they come up and they go down. We're hoping for that. But yeah, Jeremy, like I said, you're not far off. Now back to that trigger warning, content warning story. and it sort of ties in with what Carl wrote,

namely that it seems that everyone in government in the in the majority dominating portion of the government are hopelessly and utterly and intentionally, deliberately, willfully, wantonly, filthy, perverted, corrupt and disgusting. And there's no better case than what I'm about to discuss. The person in question is a low-level politician named Michael Allen Caruso. He's 67 years old.

He's a maggot. He's running for re-election in November. and he's curiously enough, he's the clerk of courts for Palm Beach County, Florida. That would be nitwit Niro's home county. When I put forward all the details, you'll say, well, that tracks. He was arrested today. Michael Alan Caruso was. He was arrested on charges, this 67-year-old man,

of kidnapping and arresting a child under the age of six. He's also being held on suspicion of luring and enticing a child, lewd and lascivious exhibition and child abuse. That all, according to the Miami Herald's reporting earlier today. There's no happy part of this story, but there is a completely predictable part of the story. At one point in time, he was a darling of Florida, duh, governor, Ron Go-Go Boots, Monkey Up De Clantis. Again, according to the Miami Herald's reporting based on Orange County, Florida Sheriff's Office report, he's uh caruso has also been accused of molesting the child on multiple occasions last year

during a family gathering and then again aboard a cruise ship the child was actually i said younger than six younger than five and the parents became alarmed and this is something that happens with child sexual abuse victims quite it's quite common the child began to act out sexually and the parents got hold of law enforcement but yeah Ron

go go boots monkey up to clantis thought he was just a great Republican even though this clown this monster had faced similar charges during his divorce in 2013 when he revealed that his estranged wife had accused him of sexually assaulting a child.

And he said, well, that's a false sexual abuse case. She just made it up. Back in December 2012, Del Rey Beach Police and the Department of Children and Families had investigated the allegation. and said it was unfounded and uh... apparently according to other records people have been trying to uh... trying to uh...

sound the alarm about this monster for some time and it was all pretty much ignored it was so ignored that in two thousand eighteen florida maggots uh... went to the polls and rewarded caruso with a seat in the Florida House. That was the same year that Monkey Up De Clantis first became governor. And they became real friends real quick.

Among other things, Caruso got some political capital. When he, with a full voice, backed Monkey Up on immigration legislation that was even opposed by other Republicans. That's when Monkey Up called him a legend. And then in 2025, a year ago, because he was about to be term limited out of the Florida House, Monkey Up gave him the job of clerk of courts in Palm Beach County. It's a, it was a nice little sinecure with a 219. thousand dollar a year payday and a budget of some 80 million dollars and more than half a thousand

employees the favoritism went to his current toward his current wife Tracy Stein Caruso too she's got two two appointments from monkey up and she's got a senate confirmation hearing coming for a Third, that being the Palm Beach State College Board of Trustees. She is at present remaining mum. But in maggot world, bad behavior gets rewarded. Yeah. His ex-wife now, his first wife, to whom he was married for 31 years, this 67-year-old man, back in 2009, called 911 saying,

saying 911 saying that hubby was shit-faced that he was speeding on i 95 that he was threatening her yeah oddly enough the judge denied her injunction her petition for a protective injunction the judge also denied caruso's request for a restraining order they managed to get full and finally divorced in 2014. And again, apparently this monster has had smoke, which apparently came from fires, swirling about him for years, and so it becomes extra disgusting when we learn that Caruso coached Little League baseball for 30 years. and was a boy scouts volunteer for eight heck he even sat on the del ray beach police advisory board

that's where these monsters like to hide and of course his his particular his particular monstrosity is for little boys which is what he is under arrest for now but the password The password, I noted, is Petard. And Mike Caruso has hoisted himself upon his own. Axios got hold of the story. Mark Caputo there reporting, as a Florida legislator, Mike Caruso, supported the death penalty for pedophiles in 2023. Now he's been arrested for allegedly molesting his grandson.

Jesus Christ. The state plans to present the case to a grandfiles, grand jury and that could lead to his own execution if he's charged and convicted under that law yeah well monkey up has removed him from his position he was running unopposed in the uh maggot primary when in florida which is the taking place today even as we speak and and as a mark of why why florida passed the death penalty for pedophiles well that that was a direct um response to a case out of the Supreme Court from 2008 named Kennedy v. Louisiana. And in that case, the court held that execution was too harsh for the offense of child sexual assault

when the child didn't die. I'm no fan of the death penalty, but this is one that's hard to argue. against yeah the Supreme Court held that well assault sexually assaulting a child we'll put him in prison for a while how about but don't execute and so as a direct attempt to challenge that law monkey up signed the bill into law and there it sits so if Caruso is convicted Yes, he will hoist himself on his own petard. One wonders what will become the clerk of court's position that he now has to vacate, that he has been thrown out of, and whether there's a Democrat running for that seat.

It's largely a magisterial position. You file the stuff that gets filed. But Jesus Christ. And it, honestly, it's beginning to feel like every single maggot out there in a position of power or public trust is probably some sort of sicko, some kind of monster, some sort of pervert, some sort of rapist, serial sexual assaulter, creep. But as I said last night, if a Democrat happens to be that way too, Fine. Fuck them. Hell with them. Like Jimmy Gomez out in California. You got to go, buddy. Because unlike the maggots, I think we have a more finely tuned sense of morality and ethics. Witness Graham Platner. So this will be a case to watch. And I'm sure at this point, naturally.

monkey up is saying uh who never heard of the guy uh uh from wave 23 minutes and a florida reference i didn't know this wild story was in florida palm beach is wealthy and creepy always has been might as well be another country uh it would so seem because there's a concentration of welfare and people who have massive wealth think they also have massive permission to do just about anything they want to. I wonder if the prosecutor in Palm Beach County, I wonder if that dude is a maggot. Why would I wonder something like that? I'll tell you why. Because this case is entirely similar to a case in that.

other maggot shithole takes ass where a crony of ken paxton's was charged with raping a little boy over and over and over and over again and should have been facing eons in prison i'm surprised takes asses a maggot legislature hasn't gotten around to, or maybe they have, passing a capital punishment statute for child sexual abuse, or maybe they're just waiting for our most puissant, dread sovereign supreme Catholic majesties in D.C. to tell Florida it's okay, and then there'll be a flurry of these laws all across the maggot south and other maggot states as well. I. De Ho and Utah come to mind, But yeah, it was Ken Paxton's buddy who was charged with something similar and wound up not even spending a month in jail because Ken Paxton intervened. Yeah, disgusting, repulsive.

And I can't find enough liberalism to say, well, you know, you probably shouldn't execute this guy. Maybe ask Alabama if you can borrow their bag that their suffocating bag to put over his head. can so he can flop and flail around a little bit on the way out the door. That might feel like going straight to hell, which is, well, a guy like Mike Caruso makes you actually wish hell was real. From Jeremy, Jen Popper Death Row is preferred outcome in this case. Criminals have a code of conduct and prisoners cure their own internal problems if you get my drift.

Well, yeah, yeah, but you got to get him there first. the guy in Texas went home to his mommy and daddies in Nebraska and said, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just want to, I want to get a fresh start in life. Maybe another little boy. Oh, but speaking of Ken Paxton, this is a moment. This is something that doesn't happen very often. And it comes out of Texas and the Senate race there. the deputy legislative director and policy advisor for john cornholio has quit his job

not to go into the private sector no he's quit his job to go to work for james tallorico in his campaign against ken paxton jacob smith asked why he would do such a thing Calorah, going to work for a Democratic candidate, said, Ken Paxton is the most corrupt, self-dealing politician in Texas who would sell their futures to the highest contributor just to hold on to power. Oh, hmm. And of course, Paxton is a corrupt, crooked, dirty, maggot. I mean, corrupt, crooked, and dirty are probably redundant.

I could just say maggot. He's a philanderer and a sex pest, who, while professing his Christianity, was engaging in most unchristian, well, adultery and fornication, or the woman who was not his one man, one, one man wife. and in fact well he was impeached for fraud and among other things he avoided a criminal trial by agreeing to wait for this community service what's he going to do go work at one of those phony baloney volunteer for one of those phony baloney crisis pregnancy centers or something i'm sure texas would call that community service. Naturally, the media reached out to Senator John Cornholio's office, and he, of course, is a man of integrity and principle and iron will. We saw that on display when he folded like

a cheap suit and voted to confirm Todd Blanchie, even as Todd Blanchie's office of legal counsel was preparing a memo to make any communication with Mitt Witt Niro somehow privileged communication all but Cornholio would say is well well is a spokes creep well the senator said he'll support the Republican ticket this fall my ass he just I don't know maybe he is that craving or maybe he'll go into the voting booth and do the right thing and vote for James Talleyco that race by the way is pretty much neck and neck but independence and even some republicans are said to be veering toward tallarico simply because uh paxton is so entirely completely and totally disgusting

and it may be a bit of an alabama situation you remember back when uh judge roy moa was running for a senator and the story broke about him being a creep around young girls and it was disgusting enough to Alabama maggots that they said yeah I'm just going to sit home this time some of them voted for a third party candidate of course very few of them voted for the actual decent human being Doug Jones who was running for that that seat and as a result of a massive get-out-the-vote effort in the black community and also as a result of good, God, fear, and upstanding Bible believe in Christ-centered evil, evangelical fundamentalists, amosexual Christian ladies and gentlemen, stay-in-home. Doug Jones was briefly elected to the Senate, and now he's making life miserable for coach Tommy the Tuba

and may actually make a race of it there in Alabama come November. One anonymous operative said that there won't be many Republicans who cross over and vote for Tala Rico because he's a liberal sissy but plenty of them will

just stay the hell home. And if they stay home that hurts down ballot too. Stay home, Stay home. It's going to be a merry chase between now and November 4th. And because it's so present in our consciousness right now, we have another story of further, what shall we say,

mismanagement of the United States Navy? Yeah. This time it's not an aircraft carrier. Let's see. We've had thuckups on the Ford, the nightmare on the Lincoln. And now comes the USS Benfold. It's an Arley Burke class guided missile destroyer. And on patrol in the Indo-Pacific part of the South China Sea,

the USS Benfold completely lost power for four days. And that's a very worrisome point. Nowhere is good, if you're aboard a sea-going vessel. Nowhere is a good place to lose power, but that's a particularly bad place to lose power. And so the USS Benfold just bobbed around in the ocean for four days, and its entire power plant was kaput. No toilets, no fresh water, no hot meals, no air conditioning, no steering, no navigation, no radar, nothing.

CNN spoke to a Navy commander Matthew Comer who was a spokesman for the 7th Fleet and he said the ship was on standard patrol in the Indo-Pacific and the generators all gave out but there were no injuries to the crew who demonstrated resilience, grit professionalism and unwavering steadiness in their response

the thing is they still don't know why it happened and that's that's a scary thing to have to be dealing with on a ship at sea hundreds if not thousands of miles from any land and over at cnn a former captain in the u.s navy carl schuster told told them about the time southeast of Puerto Rico when his destroyer lost power. He said it would have been quite stressed. Operations officers worried about crew morale, operational concerns, engineers focused on how to solve it. Navigator worried about the direction they were drifting and what weather was coming.

I can assure you, for four hours in the waters southeast of Puerto Rico is not nearly as stressful as four days in the South China. sea. The Navy had to scramble another guided vessel a guided missile cruiser, the USS Robert Smalls, to bring hot meals and ships from the USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group, which is presently en route to the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Sea. And they came in to help, and eventually the Benfold was towed to port in the Philippines, and repairs on the ship were only completed, oh, let's see, 10 days ago.

Another of our destroyers went dark back in May, U.S.S. Higgins, lost power for hours in the Indo-Pacific. The Navy, for its part, merely said there was an engineering casualty in the electrical system. One wonders if these vessels are being hacked. I don't know. I don't know. But one thing is clear, and going back to Carl's note that began the program this evening,

this public exposure of the ineffectiveness of some of our most prized vessels, well, it sure is handy and information. to have if you're well glad puty or Xi Jinping or for that matter Kim Jong-un God I saw a side-by-side meme earlier today one was a photo of Kim Jong-un set next to an AI generated image of nitwit Niro where wearing the sort of similar communist get up that Kim wears. And the caption simply said, Kim Jong-un, and then some dumb fuck. S-U-M-D-U-M-F-U-K under Nitwit Nero's image.

Kim Jong-un, some dumb fuck. And there are people who are brave enough to speak out. about this horror that is that is transpiring before our very eyes over at CNN. Aaron Burnett interviewed Air Force Major Jason Watson. It was the first time he had spoken out since being arrested when he stood at the Capitol in uniform and demanded the impover. impeachment of nitwit Niro and now of course he's facing court-martial and all the horrors that involves everything from imprisonment to dishonorable discharge the loss of his pension and again he

had reached the level of major in the united states air force and that pension loss that's a lot more so the prison potential prison time in leavenworth but he He's a patriot because he isn't backing down, at least not based on what he said to Aaron Burnett. The White House tonight. Out front now, Air Force Major Jason Watson. He was arrested last month on the steps of the U.S. Capitol after calling for President Trump and Vice President Vance's impeachment and removal from office over the war in Iran and other issues. And tonight is his first television interview since that arrest. And Major Watson, obviously, you have done this after incredible, incredible consideration.

You've been in the Air Force for 17 years. You're in the Air Force. And you know that by choosing to speak out as you did in uniform, calling for the commander in chief's impeachment and removal from office, that that carries grave consequences, violates the laws governing the U.S. military. But you chose to do it, knowing all of that. Tell me why. Well, I think the most important thing for all of us to keep in mind is what has happening with President Trump is not normal.

He has failed us, and not only is he a failure as president, he is flagrantly violating the Constitution, breaking the law, engaged in rampant corruption, and is killing Americans. and that is unacceptable to me. And it should be unacceptable to all of us. I feel like, unfortunately, many of us have gotten used to this, and we've normalized to this conduct, and we think that there's nothing that we can do about it. And one of the reasons I chose to use the pseudonym of Just a Nobody

was to underscore that you do not have to be somebody special to take action and reject this government. We can all do something about what's happening in our country. And I want to just inspire people and bring the conversation to impeach, convict, remove. And there are organizations out there that I joined with Removal Coalition with Jessica Denson and Citizens' impeachment with Keir Havens and John Bonifaz's free speech for people that are not getting enough attention. And I want to try to spotlight them.

as much as I can and to inspire Americans to act because I believe we can defeat this government if we just take a stand. So, you know, when you talk about that desire to inspire, you know, you're not, of course, a somebody. You are a somebody, right? You're not in anybody. You're a sitting major and in the Air Force. You know, after your arrest, the military had placed you under a gag order. They restricted your movements.

You're under investigation as you and I speak, and obviously the consequences you could face for speaking out because you are who you are, include court martial, removal from the Air Force, loss of pay and benefits. I mean, you could even go to prison. And you knew all of that, right? You knew all of that when you made this decision to try to inspire others. How did you go through the thought process that made you willing to pay the price that this may cost? Nothing that is worth doing is something that you can do for free. Everything that is worthwhile is going to cost something. It's going to be hard. It's going to require sacrifice. And we are in an incredibly challenging time. And in order for us to get out of this situation, we all have to have courage. So for me to take action, if I don't sacrifice something, if I don't give something up,

then it's just words and words are easy to ignore. So if I don't put myself out there in a big way, then it's just noise. And there's plenty of noise that we're all listening to every day. There's plenty of people telling us the obvious truth, but there's no cost being paid. And there's a lot of ways to view that as cynically or skeptically or whatever the case may be and just dismiss it.

and say, okay, you're not making any difference. But we just have to be willing to accept that we can change what is happening in our country if we're just willing to pay a price for it. So all that I could do was ask myself, what's the highest price that I'm willing to pay? And this is what I ultimately came up with. And it is absolutely motivated by my oath to the Constitution. but any American can make this choice. Any American can say, this government is intolerable,

and I want a better future for my children, and I want to hand them a better country than I inherited. And that is ultimately a huge inspiration for me as well. You mentioned the Constitution. You mentioned corruption. And I know you have specific reasons for why you feel this is necessary. and why the president should be removed from office.

It is obviously, it includes the war in Iran, but it is much more than that. But it is in the context of the war in Iran at this moment, right, that you are choosing to do this. What is it about the war? And this commander-in-chief, President Trump's handling of it, that made you do this at this moment. So I know that there are some folks probably in your audience that have seen my interview with Jessica Denson, and I talk about this a little bit. And it's important to just underscore that what is happening with the Iran War is very predictable strategically. And a lot of much smarter people than me knew that it would have gone pretty poorly. Like the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, that's

known. And a lot of the consequences that we're seeing, there was probably advice that was being given to the President of the United States saying, this is what's going to happen if you do this. And he chose to do it anyways. And that's an important context to keep in mind with all of this. But at the end of the day, it's also more important to remember that what he did was unconstitutional. And there endeth the clip. But he made his point. Micah says his Jag Lawyer must be having kittens. Good on him, though. I fear he's a minority in the military and will just be made an example of, though. That's possible.

Last numbers were that the military splits about 60-40 Republican to not Republican. And of that 60%, the majority may very well be maggots. Probably are maggots. And they have their own, I suppose, you could say they have this is the price you'll live with oh stop that um for instance in discussing in discussing these disasters aboard these uh these uh navel vessels well the maggots are still out there and they're very much uh well they're they're mad at the sailors aboard the lincoln of course, that

Gis Lane Maxwell is being treated better at the Country Club prison there in Brian, Texas. A woman who raped and who procured girls for rape

by Jeffrey Epstein and nitwit Niro and their various and sundry pals. Yeah, she gets better treatment than the oath-sworn sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln

and now we find out the Benfold and of course the Ford and so an ex-marine by the name of Joey Jones showed up over on Fox News TV Radio Rwanda where he is some

sort of person who receives a salary and absolutely shit all over the men and women of the Lincoln. Did everything but call them cissies? May as well have called them cowards. And recall, of course, that Newt and Ero said, The Lincoln should have been out there even longer. My God, that piss aunt whines about not having enough water pressure in his shower,

head and having to wave his hands in front of the motion sensor to turn the water on in the sink after he pees all over them hands not that yeah right oh that's funny that's funny ralps mike lukevich in the Atlanta journal constitution speech bubbles coming out of the white house Natalie my protector you're a godsend thanks for making my life bearable oh you're welcome Malania. More on that in a moment. But, yeah, Joey Jones

taken a big steamer as though it was shot from a catapult on the sailors of the Abraham Lincoln. This is nauseating. Oh, come on. We'll try that again. Here we go. He is very fired up, so I'm going to let him take the reins.

You know what I ate in Afghanistan for six months on a burner with using a little burner? I ate ramen noodles. I had to pull the seasoning packet out because I had too much sodium in it and I put tuna packets in it. That's what I ate. And you know what? I was happy to have it because the alternative was an MRE or something cooked by the Afghan guy who was too stupid to be given a gun. And they let him be the cook. And so if I wanted something spicy, test my fate a little bit, I'd go get a r-

Oh, my God. Hey, Joey, the sailors and Marines aboard the Lincoln don't have ramen and tuna, you shithead. They don't have MREs. And, of course, he works in a little bit of racism in there. Oh, the stupid Afghan guy couldn't be trusted a gun that they trusted him to feed us. Well, maybe wonder why it is that, uh, well, I guess they were teet, uh, um, oh, what's the term? in Rudyard Kipling's Gungadine, regimental bisti. Did you have a regimental bisty, Joey?

There was too much sodium in the ramen packet, so I put in tuna for the umami. Shitheads. Whatever he made in that giant, you know, earned thing that he had, how weak are you on TV complaining about tuna and noodles? I'm sorry. You volunteered to serve your country. You can come back, get out of the military, and do luck all of these Democrat veterans and complain about it and make commercials and be a sellout if you want to and come up with a new way of doing

things. The last Democrat president that I remember that was deploying troops, Barack Obama had the army going to Iraq on patrol bases for 15 months at a time eating MREs. I'm sorry. Fuck yourself, Joey Jones. This nation once had the ability. to deploy a fleet of thousands of sea-going vessels in which every single person aboard those ships was adequately fed.

That was the Second World War. The entire world was in flames. People were sacrificing back here at home. But whether they were sailors or Marines or soldiers of the Army or the Army Air Corps, the Coast Guard, the Merchant Marine, they were all put first. And, well, Joey Jones, your little pissant, the Abraham Lincoln wasn't starving when she was deployed just out of sight of San Diego so dim leader Bush could land on it and declare,

mission accomplished. There were no stories of starving sailors when Bush was running his stupid little war of choice against the innocent people of Iraq. Granted, they did turn food sources. service over to Halliburton. And that didn't work out well. There were lots of stories of rotting meat and rotting vegetables and various and sundry other forms of putrid food, Dunesbury with the famous cartoon.

I'll have a Halliburton with cheese. That'll be $30. They didn't have any of this shit under Barack Obama. Troops were adequately supplied, carefully supplied. Didn't have any of this under Biden. Honestly, we didn't have any of this under the first Trump term. Because at that point in time, there were people around Trump. They were assholes.

But you had a Secretary of Defense who was laser being focused on the well-being of the American military, not some pompous little drunk from the couch at Fox News TV Radio Rwanda. of course that's where this clip originated from. You can't run a ship with starving sailors. The life of a sailor is different from that of a Marine. Marines are taught to embrace the suck. You know going in as a Marine that you're going to be doing some of the shittiest, most dangerous, most violent work that the United States military is capable of purpose.

It's part of the mythos. Yeah, whatever it was, that guy had cooking in that big old pot of his. You know what? He was probably eating better than you, dumbass, but you're, of course, an ugly American who... What, is afraid of some fucking curry powder? I know, that's probably a little bit sketchy for me to say, but, yes, What? Are you one of those white boys that goes to your Sunday meeting and eating on the ground there at your Baptist Church? And there's not even so much as a goddamn grain of salt and the potato salad, motherfucker?

Sorry, but you're a sitting duck on a patrol base in Iraq in Afghanistan, a heck of a lot more than you are on a fortified Navy ship sitting in the water. You might have got bored, and I'm sorry. We did have more fun. Bored? Bored? You little shitbird. Bored. I wonder if dumbass even realizes that that carrier is powered by a nuclear reactor. Bored.

It's easy for things to not be boring real quick. Technicality, Jeremy says, Marines are sailors, just saying, no. Marines are Marines, sailors are sailors. ask any Marine, ask any sailor. They have a sort of internecine sibling rivalry. The Marine Corps is a subsidiary of the United States Navy, but it is its own department. That's why they have their own commandant. But they do answer to the Secretary of the Navy, so about half and half.

But the nerve of this shit heel to... attack the sailors aboard that ship upon whom no fault falls. But he has to attack them. He's there to attack them because otherwise he'd have to attack one of his brothers in couch, you know, namely Whiskey Pete Kegbreath. Because, well, the buck, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, at whiskey Pete and ultimately at nitwit Niro, neither of whom have the requisite guts or respect to take responsibility for their own fuck-ups. What did Kennedy say?

Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan. Well, every sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln is an orphan. Getting in fire fights, I'll say that. But to sit there and say that it was terrible because you have to. a corn dog and a hot dog, I would have traded a block of C4 to the Taliban for a hot dog by about July 2010. I just do not understand the mentality. If this is a representation of who our military is now, and I'm not saying it is, but there's at least enough for some of these trash rags to print about it. If this is who we are, we're just Rome sitting here waiting to burn. We've got nothing

left. We're just Rome sitting here waiting to burn. Where are you from, asshole? Busted knuckle, Mississippi. We're not sitting here waiting to burn. We are being burned alive. Any mention of the fact that all of this was a war of choice? No, no, no, he can't deal with that reality. And yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I got nothing for this little creep because he's trading on his status. And, yeah, he's minus a couple of legs because he got blown up by an IED in Afghanistan. And so he's going to sit there and call the sailors aboard the Lincoln a bunch of sissies. I think somebody might be doing some compensating? It makes me fume.

If he sat there and said, we didn't have any clean water to drink. We couldn't take a shower. I mean, well, I didn't get to take a shower for about six months, but still, you know, something that has something to do with hygiene or, you know, like getting sick. There was a scurvy outbreak. And, you know, the guys that were missing legs were only given wooden pegs instead of metal ones. Then maybe I might have some sympathy. But to that little.

Well, they didn't have clean water dip shit. and eating rancid rice and rancid tortillas will make you sick. But you had, for all intents and purposes, an enslaved Afghani who was willing to actually prepare food for you. I mean, talk about a guy who would bitch about being hungry with a loaf of bread and a roll of bologna under each arm. Speaking of baloney. kid and whoever raised him, Lord, help you if you ever go into a hot war on the ground like millions of Americans. I can only think what a World War II veteran sitting there who's lucid enough today to see that and think about the six-month journey home from fighting. You fuck wit.

My World War II veteran aircraft carrier sailor would know you for the for the pit. this aunt that you are. His time aboard the Essex was by no means easy, and he brought home a boatload of untreated, undiagnosed, and for that matter, unrecognized PTSD. I saw it a lot, all my life, well into my adulthood. Every now and then, something would just snap, and he would time travel, and he would be in the horrors again. He must think that life aboard ship is some sort of crews for all that he says that the sailors there think that it was. I mean, the provisions aboard the Lincoln are more similar to what one would have expected out of a defeated fleet. But this was just a war for which no one was prepared that was declared on the whim of a goddamn,

damn drunken drug-addled asshole and his orange frontotemporal dementia daddy. The toughest war we've ever fought after being there for four years was thinking, listening to him complain like that. I just, the secretary of the Navy put out his response. That's my response. End of story. Clay, we're going to bring up that response. Yeah.

Fuck you, Joey Jones. Fuck you. it's a pity you can't just gine back up and go back out to sea but that's that's representative of the of the division in this country that's that's who we are as a nation i'm sure the gravy seals and meal team six are equally outraged as they sit there refilling their place at Ryan's or whatever croff they hang out in. Just disgusting.

So we are almost to the halfway point of the program, and y'all, we're still a goose egg. $400 in challenge money remains that would dig us out of a deep hole because if we raise 400, we've already got the first 100 from yesterday, if we raise 400, we are at

1500 can we get after that if it's at all possible I know how hard things are but this is how this program has survived for almost a quarter of a century PayPal buttons at head on dot mind what else

well there's this oh wait a note from Cynthia meanwhile my grand nephew Cynthia says is approaching the end of his training to run nuclear reactors most likely on a submarine. I need to check with my sister, but I expect he'll be deployed by October. I don't think I need to say that I worry for him. He signed up for the Navy and did his basic training under Biden. I wonder if he would have enlisted if he knew he would

be serving under that filth, Trump, and Heggseth. I bet not. I pity anyone who has to serve under these shitheads who don't give a good goddamn about them who I mean this is this is this is this is narcissism 101 that's you know the war is about Trump not about the people fighting it that's why he calls people who join the military suckers and losers and one wonders now how long we are going to be in our attempt to right the wrongs and rebuild the wreckage that these these miserable stinking fascists these apparatchics for a foreign power have wrought upon our once great nation thank you Ralphs thank you so very kindly for getting us started this evening. So we're down to 375. And we're down to 370 to go to knock out

$1,500 at the hole. Thank you, Jeremy. Thank you, Ralph. And Steve in New York would like someone to come along with him. Somebody kick in 10 bucks. Steve's right behind you, turn it into 20. And that would get us down to 350 to go. Thank you, Steve. Thank you very much. I don't know if y'all have followed this. Wait, what's that? From Micah. Yeah, no, I grew up basically right next to a Navy base.

Calling a Marine a Sailor is a good way to get your face rearranged. Yeah, by a sailor or a Marine. My dad told a story about when a Marine Air Group flying Vought F4U Corsairs was assigned to the Essex. They weren't real good at landing on carriers. They were used to landing on, well, ground that wasn't bobbing around in the ocean. They eventually got used to it, though.

A lot of torque, and it took some tinkering, but there was a lot of torque on the prop from that engine on the corsair and i mentioned the uh du i hire this is good um thank you ralps headline from the onions they're the onion uh which now also displays an info wars logo with a an onion where the o is in info wars headline pete hegeseth orders military blockade of woman attempting to walk away from him saying he would not hesitate to use force if she continued to to disobey his orders, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered military blockade Monday of a woman attempting to walk away from him in a D.C. area bar. Until further notice, U.S. troops shall not allow this gorgeous woman to pass, said an irate, slurring Hagseth, who claimed he'd ordered several of the nation's top infantry units to carry out a preemptive strike should the young attractive bar patron attempt to leave the building to get into an Uber.

if she thinks she can just waltz out of here before I finish my story about my triumphant victory at Marine Corps Beer Olympics last summer, she has another thing coming. Because unless I get her number, she will absolutely not be allowed to pass via land, air, or sea. At press time, Hexeth announced he'd extended the military blockade after several of the women's friends, called him a creep and attempted to pull her into the ladies' room. Mm-hmm. It was a joke, says Jeremy, meant more as in. They often travel on boats and to a beach head by boat. They did a lot of work in the Marines and the Marines did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Kind of hard to get there by boat. I think we sent them in on aircraft. And also from Cynthia. Also of note, I got my flu shot this morning. Yay! The high-dose one for old parts like me. My arm's getting a little sore now, but it's a good soreness. I like my vaccines.

yet I think you're going to get more good out of that vaccine, says, than you would by eating a bunch of sourcrow steak. I actually had really seriously not out of a can or anything, cream chicken over homemade biscuits. for lunch. It was so good. It'd be nice if the USS Abraham Lincoln had a working galley where they could, I mean, do you realize that you can actually, if one joins the Navy, as a member of the enlisted personnel, they actually have a, well, a mission path,

that can result in doing some culinary-level cooking because we must keep the admirals well-fed and you learn how to do pastries and cook professionally. Yeah. That reminds me, though, Cynthia, I need to get mine. I guess it's that time. I try to wait until we get up until like October before I get my flu shot because that way maybe.

Because they're only good for like, what, six months, something like that? And a follow-up graphic to what Ralph's sent at Whiskey Pete in a bar pointing at the camera. Yeah, he's a... Or even better yet, oh, apparently somebody at Democratic Underground was having a lot of fun. Whiskey Pete, his head superimposed onto that of General Jack D. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove. or whiskey peat sitting in front of a model of the USS Abraham Lincoln and with a platter of lobsters in front of him and a lobster hat and a lobster bib and yeah thanks ralves Cynthia adds would it be at least good sauerkraut are you oh I'm sure they insist upon

only the finest live bubbling probiotic sourcrow. You know, years ago, Steve in Georgia Stan, all-around great guy, gave me a jar of the... Because, you know, I love sourcrow. Don't get me wrong. But he had found a brand that was... Yeah, it was alive, bubbling and fizzing.

And, oh, it was so good. And so much better than the stuff that you get in the store. But, you know, we know. We know that because of, well, we have an absolute sourcrow master among here in the community, namely Roger. I've had his sauerkraut. I have had his canned tuna. Like I said, from the popping of the top on that canned tuna to the fork striking glass at the bottom of the jar was, I swear, a matter of seconds at most

now there's a story that I've been wanting to get to because well geez this is so distressing I trust that most of us have at least heard of the story of the young academic in England Jason Ardei he was a he was a

young black man brilliant scholar and I think became the youngest black man ever to become a full professor at Cambridge and then he was literally hounded to suicide because people began combing with the finest of finest most fine tooth combs through every word he had written so that they could claim plagiarism because he was in fact the youngest black man ever to become a full professor

at Cambridge. Well, it turns out that one of the first people to start that assault was a little dweeb, a Cambridge academic named Nathan Coughness C-O-F-N-A-S.

this is not getting just a whole lot of coverage most of the coverage centers on Professor Ardae's suicide and the allegations of plagiarism well the man at the center of the plagiarism accusations

was himself a Cambridge academic Nathan Kauffness but Nathan Kauffness was merely working out of vendetta because Nathan Koffness is a virulent, disgusting, repulsive, racist. So bad that Cambridge's Emmanuel College dumped him in 2024 because, in the words of the college, his views on race were an assault on the college's core values, core values. he's the one who posted a substack essay accusing Jason Ardei of plagiarism

among other things he did what so many fascists do he claimed that Jason Ardei did not deserve his position that he was in fact a quote DEI his appointment was DEI ideology speaking to Times radio he said Arde wasn't smart or at least not smart

not intelligent enough to be a Cambridge professor Taylor's oldest time I mean you can go back to for instance the Plessy versus Ferguson decision where the man who

wrote that opinion Henry Billings Brown well he's He's the man who created separate but equal. And in that stain upon our national soul, he said that laws require in segregation don't necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other. Enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority.

if that happens, it's solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it. Among other things, he also wrote, If one race be inferior to the other socially, the constitution of the new United States cannot put them upon the same plane. Sounds like he and this little creep Coffness would get along quite fabulously. By the way, Koffness describes himself as a race realist, quote unquote, Dickfinger quotes, scare quotes. A race realist. He was in the business of the philosophy of biology and ethics. Oh, what a lovely place for a eugenicist.

And, of course, he went right down that same old road back in the day. Todd and I have discussed this on a number of occasions. He said that, and this was February of 2024, no less, not February of 1957. He said, well, race is linked to intelligence, and if there were no DEI initiatives. There would be no black academics at Harvard in a colorblind system. Black people, he continued, would disappear from almost all high-profile positions

outside of sport and entertainment. We need a revolution against the DEI devil, and people have to accept that talent is not distributed equally within or across groups never mind the fact that this little shithead doesn't seem to understand that race is an invention of white European culture yeah it doesn't exist biologically race does not exist genetically and so back in February 2024 when this this little shit weasel channeled his inner Klansman.

Students and academics at Cambridge immediately called for his dismissal. 1,200 students signed a petition calling for it. Protests formed against him at Emanuel College. 58 students launched formal complaints against him. They accused him, among other things, engaging in the logic of a eugenicist. They said the university was encouraging discriminatory and bigoted rhetoric because they funded his eugenics research.

And so naturally, Koffinus turned that into, well, a money-making opportunity. With the support of something called the Free Speech Union, he sued Emmanuel College. then he ran a fundraiser that netted him some 85,000 pounds. And then he lost the lawsuit to the college, because the college said his filthy little blog did great harm and reputational damage to the university. And Jason Ardey, who had a brilliant future ahead of him, is dead.

There may as well be a blood. knif in Nathan Kauffness's hands. And, of course, Kauffness himself has an ideological daddy. A black studies academic named Kahinde Andrews pointed out that Kauffness was operating out of the playbook of one Christopher Rufo, who is the same Christopher Rufo, the same shitbird, who accused Harvard President.

a claudine gay of plagiarism and both basically created the roadmap for other white supremacists to attack other academics of color. Cahende Andrews continued and said many academics are accused of plagiarism. Why did this become such a story? It's because people like Koffness simply don't believe that black people deserve to be professors at Hall. They don't think they're capable. You got to wonder what Nathan Koffness would have to say about, oh, I don't know. Clarence It's pubs on the Coke can Fappy Thomas. But it's a reminder. This story is a tragic reminder that at the heart of every white supremacist,

within that heart beats a bloody urge to kill. You remember back when Fappy was being confirmed and who was it? Some godforsaken Republican said he had been subjected by virtue of the fact that Anita Hill dropped the dime on his pervert ass, that FAPE was subjected to a high-tech lynching? No, he wasn't. And of course, America would be so much better off if those white men of the United States Senate had listened to Anita Hill. There are women in America who are no longer alive because of the United States. the ideas and opinions of Clarence Pubes on the Coke Can Fappy Thomas, those women died bleeding

out in cars outside emergency rooms with miscarriages, spontaneous abortions, that doctors were not allowed to treat because of Clarence Pubes on the Coke Can Fappy Thomas, who said in his concurrence to Dobbs that he wanted more cases to torment more people. But Jason Ardei was the victim of an academic lynching, plain and simple. Judge, jury, and executioner. He didn't kill himself because he was guilty of anything. He killed himself because he was driven to it by people like Nathan Koffness. one individual noting whatever Jason Arde did, it did not warrant the treatment he received. And another expert at Cambridge went on to say that the bullying of Jason Ardei was relentless.

Oh, Ralphs, I didn't even think about that, but yeah, you're so right. Oh, please let J.K. Rowling be associated with Nathan Kaughness. Please, please, please. It would not surprise me one bit. Because, well, Jason Koffness is the kind of hateful piece of shit with whom a hateful piece of shit like J.K. Rowling rubs shoulders routinely. Oh, thank you. Dave in the Blind. Thank you so much.

This is from Christine. She wants me to let you know that she can definitely. definitely afford this not to worry and that is the truth Roxanne so best of luck and here's her contribution thank you thank you Christine you're a dear and we are down to three hundred dollars to go on this massive challenge courtesy of Cat in Ohio 10 at 30 30 at 10 we could do this in the next hour and 10 minutes we really really could maybe we can and well we know that the ice goons are a bunch of violent punks miserable human beings that is beyond doubt at this point they're they they're murderous they're they're nothing

more than a vigilante mob who serve at the will and pressure play pleasure of an orange pedophile. They're also comically inept. There's ongoing litigation in Minneapolis against the ice goons. The case is being presided over by U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor the 4th. And back in February, he signed an injunction banning any investigation by the ICE goons or CBP or the DHS assholes at a number of churches that were listed in the order. Well, as Emil Beauvais once said in the Department of Justice, sometimes you just have to tell a federal judge to fuck off. Well, the case is back in court because that's exactly what the ice goons, CBP thugs and DHS assholes did. Despite being told not to surveil one church, they still

sent an undercover ice goon a woman how any woman could be so self-loathing as to associate her bow but why do I of course they can that's look at look at how the white maggot women voted in 2024 and in 2016 but there in Minneapolis has a neighborhood called dinky town no idea maybe maybe a minnesota member of the Horn family community congregation can tell us about that area. But there's a church there called University Baptist Church. They are in turn a member of the Alliance of Baptists and the American Baptist Churches USA, which is by no means whatsoever even remotely like, say, the Southern Baptist Convention. I'm sure that the Southern Baptist Convention,

they're passing out AR-15s and applications to join ICE because that whole Matthew 25 thing doesn't mean much to a Southern Baptist. But despite being told not to surveil University Baptist Church, the ice goon said, well, that's just exactly what we're going to do. And so they sent an undercover ice goon, a woman, into the University Baptist Church wearing a wire. No, really, wearing a wire. Now, bear in mind, the judge had previously said,

don't do it, and if you do, I'm going to start sanctioning people from the top down. Well, what happened was, as a result of court filings this week, in a criminal case 15 conspiracies charges against 15 anti-ice protesters, Patriots,

they've been named the Minnesota 15. Well, in those filings, a Homeland Security Investigations report came to light. This repulsive woman

showed up at the University Baptist Church Gymnasium on May the 28th. a progressive martial arts organization called Left Jab was having a sparring and boxing session there in the church gym. And so the ice goons felt like they had to spy on it because, of course, they did. And the report from DHS said, Well, due to the physicality of the event, UCA 511, 022's concealed body-worn audio recorder erroneously fell to the floor at the goddess of irony she's an english major she really is

the audio recorder erroneously fell to the floor of the gymnasium any other practitioners of the art of word knowing want to take a run at that one this sounds like the particular individual language from idiocracy no really to the physicality of the event, UCA 502's concealed body-worn audio recorder erroneously fell to the floor of the gymnasium. How can a recorder commit an error? Near the end of the training, UCA 5022 briefly left the gymnasium, realized she no longer had the device. Oh shit, I dropped my illegal bodywire recorder and returned to the gymnasium to retrieve the device from the floor. all of this, even though the church had plastered both the interior and the exterior with signage stating federal agents not permitted on premises, no ice under order of the U.S. District Court,

and the ice goon just swaned right in there. Of course, DHS is a misogynistic AF organization. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, that's what happens when you send a girl. She drops her erroneous recorder. Stupid girl. And the interim pastor at University Baptist Church, Reverend Cody J. Sanders, said we had no idea that there was a spy in our midst.

Until this week. and Reverend Sanders said, speaking to Minnesota Public Radio News, we will continue to insist that solidarity with our most vulnerable neighbors is the way that we best follow the ways of Jesus in the world. Meanwhile, as far as the Homeland Security assholes and the ICE goons and the CBP thugs and the entirely corrupt Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, it was, well, this. Yeah, we're never going to trust that woman with a recording device again. Because when we send in a man to do a man's job, the recording device doesn't erroneously fall.

Ring them up, Judge. and by all means bring in agent what's what's her name is damn sure not agent 99 bring in UCA 5022 and bring her in tell her to bring her soap and her toothbrush with her wouldn't you love to hear that line of questioning you knew there was a court order against entering the church well your honor you knew right uh you're Your honor, but America, Ily, you knew I had entered an order and you flagrantly disobeyed it. And maybe have her standing there with her supervisor next to her and her supervisor, supervisor, supervisor, supervisor, supervisor, supervisor, and her supervisor, supervisor,

until you get to that little fucking toxic hobbit, Mark Wayne Mullen. Well, that's none of your business, Judge. Bayliff, take him into custody and show them how much business it is of mine. I know, a girl can dream. Jeremy says, I will not be at all shocked. After her death, it will be revealed that J.K. Rowling was a trans man, too afraid to come out and full of self-hate.

Wouldn't be the first one. But, you know, she admitted as much. They admitted as much. Whatever. In an award-winning essay for the, what, Times of London or the BBC or so, oh, they got so excited. Now, back to UCA 5022. Remember, the audio recorder erroneously fell because of the physicality of the event. So I guess she was going in there and, I don't know, maybe Mark Wayne gave her some MMA tips.

so she could look like a real leftist left jabber. Jesus. Then, well, in yesterday, well, wait a minute. I don't want to keep somebody waiting. Let's run over to the stress line and see who's with us. Hey, welcome to the program. Yes, this used to be the mayor of Dimpia town. Really? Hi, Kurt.

This is Kurt up here. Yeah, hi. No, I wasn't the mayor. But Dinketown, I thought I called this to be kind of brief here and just tell you. Well, thank you. I mean, I want to know. Yeah, well, Dinky Town was just what it is, a little town on the university campus of Minnesota. And they called it Dinky Town.

There were shops, there was restaurants, stores, bars even. It was just kind of like a little bit of a, you know, like a university community. So it's basically a little enclave of the Golden Gophers. Correct. Yes. That's right. Yeah. And I'd live pretty close to Dinkytown. But when I first went down there, I'd live with my aunt and uncle down in southeast Minneapolis. And then I found an apartment. Real close to Dinkytel, because it was right on campus. It was the coolest place where restaurants and, like I said, bars and all kinds of stuff.

Stores, you know, grocery stores. Yeah, it was a pretty handy little place and very pretty there. Oh, I'll bet. It's pretty close to Minneapolis is a pretty place. It's a pretty town. Oh, yes, it is. Yes. Although I will say I'd like the St. Paul downtown better. I've always loved St. Paul. It was a little bit newer. I was only there ever so briefly for a Netroots Nation many years ago, and so I didn't get to see the St. Paul side, but I've heard people say that, yeah, St. Paul is special. Oh, yes, yes it is.

Yeah, the downtown area there in St. Paul is, it's a lot more modern, where Minneapolis has still sort of that old vintage look to it, although I haven't been down to the cities now for quite a while, but when I was there, yeah, yeah, Minneapolis was older, you know, and had that older look. But you go to St. Paul and the downtown St. Paul is just nice. It's well-capped and clean and, you know, it's really nice. But Minneapolis, oh, I've always loved Minneapolis, so too.

Like I said, I used to frequent First Avenue when I was in college and stuff at all the bars down there when I was wild and crazy in those years. Yes. It sounds like a good time. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, it was. But it's a very nice little town. They call it Dinky Town. So one can well imagine then that this University Baptist Church would probably be on the more actually Jesus-centric side of the religious spectrum. That is to say liberal? I would say so. Yes, yes, yes. Yes. I would.

say so yeah but you gotta remember i was down there in the early 80s so i'm sure a lot of things have changed down there so it's you know this was when i was down there it was from 82 the what was it 85 or 86 86 excuse me oh those were our salad days weren't they oh god yes they sure were i was in my 20s And then 86, I would have been 25. Yeah. So it was, yeah, those were the, those were the days, Roxanne. Yeah, I can, I can well imagine.

But now it's, but now we're in the fourth quarter. So who knows what, what's it stick now? And you were talking about, oh, I'm sorry. No, no, please, you. No, I was just going to say that when you were reading Carl's email today, you know, I brought back, you know, some things that, you know, had we been smarter back in the 80s in this country, we probably could have halted a lot of the shit that we're in today. But that's foresight, too. You mean by like, for instance, sending old 666 himself, Ronald Wilson, Raygun packing? Right, right, right.

And not only that, but, you know, we'd let other things go, too. Bush and Cheney should have been sent to the head for war crimes. That never happened. And, you know, we seem to let people off the hook all the time. And one of these days, we've got to stop doing that. Kurt. Right. Right. And like Ford, too, you know, back in the, you know, the early 70s, you know, letting, you know, Nixon off the hook. And yeah, we don't seem to handle, handle that. Our long national nightmare is finally over. Here, where this win button, whip inflation now.

Right. Right. And it will be, if, if I never hear, hear another politician say, oh, we have to look forward, not back. It will be way too soon. Right. Right. It's all that looking forward and not going low and going high when they go low in a way that got us to this unique little point in time. Right. Right.

Sometimes you have to look back and impose some damn consequences. Right, right, right. Well, you know, people should be held accountable for all this shit. That's been going on. And I blame the 80s for a lot of this stuff too, because, you know, you can tie a whole lot of things to where we're at today, right back to the 80s. And it's kind of too bad.

We didn't have a, you know, we didn't have a very good populace to really, you know, you know, pay attention to this stuff. But of course, you know, you and I were younger then too. But I did, I did, you know, pay attention to things. And I even noticed it in my day-to-day life when you would, you know, just look at things, you know, back at that time. Right. You know. But no one wants to do anything. you know, what do you do?

You know, you can talk to these people until the cows come home, but they'll still, you know, they'll still kind of scoffing off and, well, you know, they're all doing it, you know, you know, remember hearing that when you were younger? Well, they're all doing it, you know.

Right. You know, like Nixon and all this stuff. But it's, but if we would have just nipped this in the bud back then, we probably could have halted a lot of this stuff. And here's another thing I don't understand. You know, a lot of these people that voted for this, this, this, this twit there in the

White House, don't these people remember what, you know, what the fuck he was doing back in the 80s? I mean, I remember this. Oh, you mean, you mean Trump's sexual Vietnam? Right. Right. That's what he called it. That? Right.

And then also, too, he was stiffing all the people that work for him. You know, the construction crews and stuff. It was basically what he was doing was just rebranding buildings. He wasn't building anything. He just bought up these buildings and rebrand them. Yeah, it was all a con. I mean, I guess, yeah. I guess.

I mean, I guess he did build Trump Tower. And do you remember a few years ago the story about, didn't a guy die because of the, didn't a guy die because of the shitty, the shitty construction and like died of smoke inhalation or something in a fire in one of the apartments in that got awful building? Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, I'm maybe getting it wrong, but yeah.

And then, you know, what, he bought the building down on Wall Street, didn't he? Right, right, yes. Right. And then he stepped to everybody. Right. Because his daddy taught him that as a slum lord. Right. Don't pay him.

In fact, I, a good friend of mine years and years and years ago was a lawyer for a huge construction firm and he was constantly in litigation because that's what would happen you know they you bid the job you get the job and then the the person doing you know who's financing it stiffs you and makes you go into court so that you ultimately settle for less than you're due and owing oh man well that's a nice hustle it's it's it's yeah it is it's a hustle it's a racket Right, right, right. Well, I guess we're, because you and I are in the wrong business. I mean, all, yeah, all the, all the ones that, I mean, can you imagine me as a televangelist?

Oh. Yeah, I could actually. I'd be rich. Yeah. Oh, most definitely. And, of course, you have a pretty good background. for that because you're from the south and you know you were you were pumped with that stuff I'm sure when you were younger dipped by the heel absolutely the only problem is that

well I have a hard time being deliberately dishonest with people I it makes me sick right right I mean, how do these How do these gospel sharps, Kurt, how do they go into the pulpit every Sunday and say everything? And some of them do say that, you know, Canckel's Caligula is the second coming of Christ Jesus. Right. How do you, I mean, if I was a minister of the gospel and I said something like that, I'd like run across the stage hoping to dodge the next lightning pole. right no it's amazing how people buy into it you know up in this part of the country we don't have that

kind of what you know i would say we probably do now a little bit more but i remember when i was younger uh there wasn't anything like what you had down there in the south no and and and steven new york has marked upon his upbringing in Ohio saying that there was nothing like that around him either. But of course, it has metastasized out of the South and infected the entire country. I'm sure it's, I'm sure it's there now. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yes.

You were talking about the difference between, you were talking about the difference between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Tell me if I'm wrong. St. Paul is the Catholic side and Minneapolis is what? the Lutheran side? Yeah, I would say so. Yeah. Or the German side versus the Scandinavian side? Probably, yes, yes.

Yeah, very much. I would say St. Paul was very much Catholic, yes. There was, you know, when I was very, very little, I used to go to the Gillette Children's Hospital. And it was in a very nice area when I was a kid. And it was in the Lake Fadlin Park area. And it was, it looked like a Spanish building. It had the, you know, the Spanish deco look to it.

And it was kind of like outside of the city. And then they moved. in the 80s to St. Paul Ramsey. And they were in, and that's right next to the Capitol. It's very close to the Capitol. And I know a lot of doctors left there because it was under new management and all that. But I missed that old area

where the Children's Hospital used to have. to have even remember those old old elevators with the screechy cagey door and you had the oh gosh yes and they had attendants who drove them yeah spent all day just up and down yeah right right well that's what they had at that old old hospital there and it was so cool looking, but it was very much a Spanish style building. What do you call those red? Terracotta.

I could know this. Terracotta? Yes. Yeah, there you go. They had that as a roof, and it was such a cool looking building at that time. But it was out at the Lake Fentland Park area. And there was a golf course out there, too, even.

But it was really, really cool, cool place out there. But I believe they tore it down. It's God now. But St. Paul is very, very Catholic. Yes. And Minneapolis is, yeah, I would say more of a Lutheran area. Yes.

That was what I, that's what I'd always been told. Yeah. Yeah. And so, so Prince being, was he from Minneapolis or St. Paul? He was from Minneapolis. Yeah. So I guess that's also the Jehovah's Witness side of town. Right, right, right.

Speaking of the Jehovah's Witness, when I was, I think I was like two or three years old, and my mom had me in this crib because I was, I was in a body cast. I had surgeries and stuff when I was very, very young. and my mom happened to be upstairs. She was doing laundry, or she was folding laundry, I remember. And a bunch of these Jehovah's Witnesses came onto our farm, and they started praying over me. My mom came down the stairs.

What the hell? And here was a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses that were, you know, that came into the house and they had brochures, and they were praying over me. And I, you know, I didn't know what the hell it was. I was pretty young then, but. Well, Victoria, oddly not you, that reminded me of something. Victoria and I, Sunday, went to the park.

It's near here. And there were like three old ladies set up under a canopy in the park. And they had a sign that said, would you like to learn about Jesus? And I looked at Victoria and I said, those are the three laziest Jehovah's Witnesses I've ever seen in my life. You're supposed to be out banging on doors, ladies. Right.

Although the Church of Christ is big up here too. So it may have been them. Oh, it is. Yeah. Now, I'm not talking about the United Churches of Christ. They're actual, you know, good Christians and stuff. I'm talking about the Church of Christ, the flavor that says that you can't even have so much as a kazoo to sing your hymns by, that everything has to be acapella. That's funny.

You know, that reminds me of, you remember those old, old blooper records back in the 60s? Oh, Lord, yes. Yes. Well, do you remember the one where the guy, or there was like a reporter at this church, and he was interviewing some of the parishioners there, and he was asking him, well, what did you think of today's service? And the first family came out, and they said, well, we really enjoyed the sermon. and then the second guy came out and he asked him, he said, well, what did you enjoy here in the service today? He said, well, I thought the pastor gave a very good servant.

And then the third guy came out and he asked him, and he said, you know, I really enjoyed the hymns. I still remember that. I thought, now, when I was a kid, I had an entire book of bloopers. I had an early, early interesting radio. And one of the ones I remember, there was the famous one where the announcer referred to the president of the United States, Hubert Heaver. But one was just a, you know, some garden variety DJ at some radio station. And, you know, you've got a bunch of index cards with public service announcements on them,

and, you know, you read one at every break, and you flip to the next one. And I guess the announcer wasn't paying attention that day. And this is real. This is not made up. Right. And he said, and now this public service announcement, there will be a Peter pulling contest at St. Taffey's Church on Sunday. Yeah, that's pretty cool.

good. I don't know why that stayed in my mind. You know, you know, there was another one. I heard, I heard you and Dave talk about baseball here. And I was going to call in, but I got,

I got sort of sidetracked here because I was, I was busy doing some things here. But I know that you guys are, are like national leaders. You poor fellas. But anyway,

I do agree with you guys, though. I don't think the American League should have went to the designated hitter. That was kind of dumb. Well, you know, there was an easy trade to, there was an easy swap that could have been made back in the day, Kurt. Because National League teams tended to play on artificial surface. I mean, good God. I remember that god-awful rug that they put down in places like three rivers and Cincinnati.

And in riverfront and the stadium in Atlanta and Bush in St. Louis and the park in Phil. Oh, God, it was. And, you know, it destroyed. That shit destroyed careers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But I always thought that they could have come to an agreement. The American League says, okay, no designated hitter.

And the National League says, cool, we'll play baseball on grass from now on. Problem solved. Right. I mean, do you remember, do you remember the infield in those god-awful artificial that there was no dirt in the infield? It was all bright. It was all just that, that. almost neon green god-awful carpet.

Right, yes. I think they ultimately made so much of it that they're still selling the excess as indoor, outdoor carpeting at Lowe's and Home Depot. Well, that could be. Well, the reason I brought up baseball was I was going to do a blooper thing here for you. because I think this was like during the spring training and stuff.

And there was a great, great blooper on this, on this old record that I had. And it was a, it was a baseball one. And what it was, it was the color commentator was explaining something to the play-by-play guy. Now, I don't know if this was real, but it sounded real,

or if it was just kind of a stage thing. but it went like this. He goes, now this is the color commentator. And he notices something in the stands. And he says, you know, it's a curious thing, Jim,

I noticed this couple in the stands who much made newlyweds. It seems that he kisses sir on the stripes and she catches him on the balls. Stupid. You know. I wonder if it was intentional or just a,

a brain fart right right right but it was one of those those those those bloopers off the well there wasn't I think this was this was real wasn't wasn't there something similar maybe Lee Trevino was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Johnny asked Trevino is the Trevino it said something like you know I'm you know my wife is really great. You know, she, she's, she's just there for me, you know, every tournament. And Johnny looked at him and said, well, is there anything special that she does? And he said, as innocent, wide-eyed and innocent, Trevino said, well, before, before every tournament, she, she kisses my balls. That may be apocryful, but I swear, I think it's real.

right right right i think i think i remember hearing hearing hearing about that yes and oh yeah there's a there's a there's a great example george and corskull just wrote and said uh subject line turf vladimir guerrero's career was undermined by playing in montreal well that that was part Montreal and part do you mean because Montreal George or do you mean because artificial surface I think they met artificial surface maybe because I think you know Montreal you know the expos they played I think on artificial turf because I remember you know being so close to Canada we used to you know they used to play their games because they were they were the only Canadian team at that time way back in the day

was the Montreal Expos. Yeah. And I think that was artificial turf. They had that Carter. What was his name? Joe Carter? Was it Joe Carter? I played for the Expos. Gary Carter. Gary Carter. Gary Carter. There you go. There you go.

Yes. Yes. God, that's a long time ago, Roxanne. You know, back in the 60s and early 70s. Yeah, wasn't Gary Carter a contemporary? He was a catcher. And wasn't he a contemporary of Johnny Bench?

Johnny Bench, yes. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, they don't have a team. Oh, there were some great catchers back then. Gary Carter, Bench, Mani Sanguian. Samgian.

Geez, there's a name I haven't heard. The Thurman, Thurman Munson. Oh, Thurman. That was a tragedy in its own right. Yeah, right, right. He was killed. Wasn't it a plane crash or a car? Yeah, yeah.

Was it a plane? Was it a plane? Yeah. Yeah, there's, you know, I went to, when I was at Gillette Children's Hospital, this was one summer. This was like late 60s. And they took like about six or seven of us kids to the ballpark all at Bloomington.

Now, this was when the twins were playing out at the Metropolitan Stadium. And they took us to a double header to see the Detroit Tigers. We're playing a double header with the twins out at the old Metropolitan Stadium. And, of course, in those days, when they took them. played double-headers, they played the next game within a, I think it was like a half hour to 40 minutes, and then they played again,

you know, not like today where they play one game in the afternoon and then the other game at night. This was a real true double header back in then days. And the twins lost the first game, I remember,

was like five to two or something. And then they came back and then Harmon Killebrew hit hit like a true run homer and they won the second game. But, but, of course, those were the days when the pitchers even, even, you know, were batting that too. So, and you know, Jim Codd, who was a pitcher. Oh, golly.

He was a, he was a good batter, actually. He could actually jerk a few out of the, out of the ballpark once in a while. and also Burke Blind will have a tool. Dear God. Oh, yeah. I mean, you're digging deep into some of my dormant neurons. And I don't know if you saw, but this is that same era. I'd seen a story a couple of maybe a week or so ago announcing that Tommy John didn't show up for the Yankees old timers game and instead sent a heartfelt note thanking the fans.

Oh, wow. Well, he was gravely ill and he just passed away. I think he was 84, just passed away a couple of days ago. What a pitcher he was and, you know, he became as famous for the surgery named after him, perhaps more famous than he was for his skills as a pitcher, which were significant. Right. And oddly enough, the surgeon who came up with that was down at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. oh wow wow and i think he he having come up with the tommy john surgery

the john yeah he but i think he also kind of um opened an opened a new front into soft tissue repair in complicated joints like elbows and shoulders and knees you know remember remember the photos of the scars on joanameth's knees oh god yeah big jagged affairs jagged yes and you know and and along comes arthroscopic surgery and it's it's more like a puncture wound right yeah and in answer to the question in answer to the question george and corskull just said turf part too. The turf ruined his knees. Also, Dick Allen, a horse racing fan said about artificial turf, and I'm familiar with this quote, if a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. Right. And Steve in New York concurred saying, yeah, played on artificial turf.

And it's, by the way, Steve just asked, did my challenge get met? No, there is, Steve's got 10 bucks. He would like to turn into, he'd like to take his tan and add it to somebody's 10 and turn it into 20 and get us down to, uh, 280 on the challenge, courtesy of, uh, courtesy of Auntie Kat over in Ohio. Thank you so much, Kat. And so, yeah, 280 would be a nice place to be. Thanks for the reminder, Steve. Thank you. But, um, wow, all this, all this, all this, all this baseball, but it feels like, I mean, it is

baseball of a bygone era and maybe maybe i'm just maybe i'm just uh cranky but i don't like the i don't like the tinkering that they've done with it maybe yeah i can live with the pitch computer but trying right but putting a clock on baseball is somehow yeah that's dumb fundamentally anti-american right right Right. I mean, you play till there's a winner. There are no ties. Well, not only that, but it's hard to watch now, too, because you have to pay for everything now. Oh, yeah. I kind of miss those days, you know, where you could just turn out a baseball game and there it was. But now you've got to go through all this. But it's kind of getting like that with all the sports, too.

Even hockey is that way now. It's like, Jesus. Yeah, well, and college football's coming, and if you don't have a subscription to ESPN, you're going to miss out on a lot of ball. I hate it. Right, right. But you talk about back in the day, and by the way, the founder of ESPN just passed away at 93, guy named Rasmussen. Apparently, he was beloved by many. He started ESPN as a Connecticut-only venture back in. in 1979 by maxing out his credit card and taking a cash advance for $9,000 and buying satellite time

with it. Right. Well, did you know that that founder that you just, you know, that you just named Rasmussen, he actually wanted it to be a hockey. Well, he was, yeah, he was a, he was a former. executive for the whalers. That's right. And you know what's funny about the whalers,

their jerseys still sell Roxanne. I mean, you see them everywhere. You know what the, with the W and then the tails, you know, shark or the, of the whale tail. And that's one of the most, that's one of the most popular you know jerseys but yes yes you're right he

he was I think he owned the whalers didn't he own the whalers no no he was a fired executive for them and all these weird little connections when I was at CNN a guy came in to do sports and business his name was

Ed McCarthy and he had been a beat reporter for the whalers. He came down to Atlanta from Connecticut. Right, right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, for some reason I thought he owned the whalers too, but I do remember he wanted,

he wanted to have it as just a hockey channel, but then he had some other investors from what I understood. And then they told him, they said, well, why don't you just turn it into a sports channel? And that's what they did. Yep. And the rest, as they say, is history. And then the rest is history.

Yeah. Now, George tells me that the Tommy John surgery is first done by Dr. Frank Jovey of the Curlin-Jobie Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles. George says, go Dodgers. I'm almost certain there's a UAB connection in there somewhere. some sort of Birmingham connection, but I can't go around. I can't go digging it up. By the way, Steve just said, I love the baseball talk. And Micah said, I hate the clock.

I hate the free base runner and extra innings. That one really drives me crazy because it reminds me of how we'd play baseball in the vacant lot when we didn't have enough to field a team. And so if you got a hit, if you got a hit, you'd declare ghost man. on first and your buddy would get up and bat and it got real confusing real quick trying to figure out you know whether the ghost runner had scored and it's it feels it feels like it's it's it's kind of made its way into the major leagues with the automatic base runner in extra innings Jesus that yeah I hate that right right but Micah adds I love

Love the challenge system, and I think they need to just let the robot call balls and strikes. That's very anti-human. That's very anti-human of you, Micah. You got to have something. What's a pissed off man if you're going to do? Go and kick dirt on a computer cable. Right. Or a sensor.

Right. Can a manager be ejected from the ballgame for accusing the computer of needing more pixels? I remember the words, I think, of the late great Earl Weaver who said to an umpire once, you're missing a great game out here today, man. But Micah says, and between needs to be. to sell my arm, leg, and kidneys to afford to watch ball and the insane attack ads. I seriously doubt I'll be watching much ball myself this year. Yeah, maybe that needs to become a national thing.

I've said this for a long time, Kurt. If enough pissed off voters would simply say, listen, if I see any politician's attack ad when I'm trying to enjoy myself watching a ball game, you're fuck. to me. I mean, do you remember when Charlemagne the God helped Trump out

immensely on air by saying, yeah, I mean, I'm trying to watch a football game. I don't want to, I don't want to see all these, I don't want to hear about these trannies while I'm watching football, man.

Yeah, thanks And Micah notes Not anti-human Anti-Omp, most of those assholes are blind But I think I don't think the computer overturns I don't know what the stats are

But I think I can kind of live with that I think we benefit from extra From instant replay in football and but I what do you think of the NFL today

I'm bored with it yeah it's it's no fun league yeah and it's too mechanical and I think we've got too many coaches there too I mean it's not brain surgery

I mean it's blocking and you know running schemes and routes and stuff. But why do you need all these coaches and all that nonsense? Well, you have to justify all the money that you're

extorting from the public purse to you know what I mean. Well, that too, yeah. But the other fundamental problem is that football is a brutal and dangerous sport that might very well,

Teddy Roosevelt may have fucked up when he intervened to try to let the young sportive football continue because, you know, there was a hue and cry out there. Young, young, young, young, young, young, young, young, young, young, young, young Ivy leaguers were having their lives ruined by getting out on the gridiron. Right, right. And so I understand the need to protect players because what has happened to the Definitely.

What has happened to players over the years is unconscionable, and it was all done for a buck. Right. I mean, you know, who was it? Junior Seow with the Chargers. Oh, right. Didn't he will his brain to medical science to figure out what football had done to him? Yes, yes. Yes, I think he did.

And, you know, the numbers of, you know, football players with tragic ends is heartbreaking. Oh, God, yes. Yes. You know, I didn't know that you were, as I heard the show, I didn't realize that you were a big, big Viking fan. Oh, I was back in the day. Yeah. I had my, I had my, I had my, I had my, I had my, I had my friend, Tarkington, Jersey. I did. And, you know, the thing I got a kick out about him is that he would run around there in the backfield for about five minutes,

and then he decided to throw the ball. Remember? Yeah. He'd run around the back, and then finally, he would, you know, he would throw the ball. Well, and, of course, that iconic call. And that's what I was going to mention a little bit ago, back before ESPN. I remember Sunday mornings with my dad. He'd always tune in the ABC channel for the review of college football Saturday.

And, of course, the voiceover would be by Keith Jackson, which was just perfect. I mean, there's never been a better college football voice. I will, I will, I will stand on. on that and and take on all comers and yeah i remember and dad would tune in hoping to just even get a glimpse of his beloved mountaineers and i remember one sunday there was there was a young man named tom pride more and i think he still holds it uh he holds the interceptions record for w v u and i think he holds it for the atlanta falcons too uh oh wow but he put on, he was a safety, and he put on an interception clinic in one game.

And the thing is, Tom Prydmore was from my dad's hometown, and he knew the Pridmore family. Oh, I see. Wow. And in fact, there's a whole story that goes with it. My dad worked for Reynolds Metals, and they were headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. And I think it was 1976 or so, and he was beginning. to have the first manifestations of heart problems. Because on that silicon furnace, he worked around god-awful air and the heat. And, of course, he had worked on silicon furnaces and coal mines exclusively since he had gotten

out of the Second World War. And while he was aboard ship, he was surrounded by asbestos. down among the boilers. And so he, I think maybe that generation was just that way, but I think my dad was especially that way. He felt like he was the equal of any human being on earth. Right. He would never have so much as nodded his head to the queen of England.

Right. He was, he was by God, an American and proud of it and took, and took the ideas, except for the racism part, of the founding seriously. And so my dad decided to take some time, and it was in the autumn. and he was going to go to Richmond and he was going to find the CEO of Reynolds Medals and straighten him the fuck out. Right, right. But he was also a big sports fan.

You know, whenever we'd come up here to visit, Dad would always try to schedule the visit when the Charleston Charlies would be in town. And during August, which was the miners' vacation, Dad was, dad was, and he would always talk about how dumb he was, but he was a brilliant man. He'd look at me and say, your mom is the smart one in the family. And my mother was brilliant. She really was.

Right. She got out of high school with a full-tilt scholarship to go study journalism and didn't get to go because of the war. she wound up in a munitions factory in Elkton, Maryland. Wow. Hence the thing that my dad would say, yeah, your mama made bullets in Baltimore because the basketball franchise was the Baltimore Bullets. That didn't work out so well. But dad decided that he was going to go and straighten out the CEO of Reynolds Medal,

medals but he also made it notice that well it was Richmond Virginia and the Mountaineers were playing the Richmond spiders at Richmond so he made sure that we got we got that in there too and it was cold and I went up there and there's a photo somewhere of me and my little my little Vikings jacket you know with the fake leather sleeves the gold sleeves the purple the big Viking on the back and my Vikings and my and my and my Vikings tobogging um wow wow but because my dad felt like you had the whole words oh I did I was a fan I was a fan and and part and part of it was just the simplicity of the way a child looks at things because right I was in Alabama and growing up

in Alabama if an inch of snow fell they declare martial law and close all the schools. Right. But when you got to see the Vikings play in the winter, it was outdoors on grass. Outdoors, yeah. Very cold too at times. Fucking 20 below zero and Bud Grant standing there in a ball cap and short sleeves and Bill Brown's got, yeah, Bill Brown practically got the sleeves cut off his jersey.

Right. Right. And, you know, before game time, they'd show that the snow burner thing, just, you know, breathing fire, cutting the, you know, cutting the, cutting the yard lines. And, and I thought it was just the coolest thing in the world. Because, you know, my grandmothers were back up here in West Virginia and my, my maternal grandmother would make. make a point of calling long distance. Kids these days don't understand long distance and how expensive it was. Get off my lawn.

But when it would snow, she would always call me, my grandmother would, and say, oh, the snow is so pretty, and you would just love to see it. And it was true. Snow was something magic. to me. But... Oh, I'm sure it was. But that day in Richmond, that Saturday in Richmond, was sunny, blue skies.

And my dad, the equal of any human being on the planet, we had our seats. They were good 50-yard-line seats. There was hardly anybody there. And so it was the pregame and everything. And my dad felt like he'd earned whatever it was that he, you know, because he did. Right. Right. And he said, come on. And I followed my dad, and I was like, Dad, we can't do this. Because it was already being instilled in me that, by God, there are rules. We can't do this, Dad, Dad, come on. And he walked us down to the gate. I mean, it wasn't like it is now. reached over,

popped the latch on the gate, walked through onto the field, and walked up and started talking with Bobby Bowden, the head coach of the West Virginia University Mountaineers, asking him about the season and telling him about what he'd seen watching the games and walked over to Tom Pridemore and said, boy, I tell you, hey, everybody's so proud of you up in Anstead,

and I'm proud of you down in Alabama too. You are one whale of a football player. well thank you kindly sir and we just sat there and he just sat there and jawed with the team and i'm just sitting there with the standing there with my mouth hanging open catching flies as my as my dad just starts talking because my dad's ambition coming out of high school had the war not happened his dream was to be a college football coach oh was that right and he never he never got to fill it. But, you know, he was, he was that way all his life, fresh out of the Navy. He'd get on a train and, and, and take it to Cincinnati, meet up with his, his, his best buddy from the, from the ship,

a man named Archie Staggy. And they'd go to Reds games. And, oh, wow. And dad, God, I wish I, I want to find him. So there are pictures of dad just standing down, um, off the foul line yaking with the bullpen. There's a picture of him with Harry the Hat Walker in his playing days for the Cardinals. Oh, wow. My dad was an amazing man. And just, well, don't act like there anybody. Just go.

And so, God, we were in St. Louis. You went there do that today. No, and we were in St. Louis one time, and Dad grabbed me, and we walked over to Bush Stadium, and he said, well, this is the player's entrance. Got your notebook, got your pen. Go up there and get you some autographs. Dad, I can't do that. Yeah, you can. And the Padres were in town, and so I got, I can't remember.

He was a Padres pitcher, and Joe told. Tori was with the cards, and I got the Padres guy's autograph, and I got Joe Tori's autograph. Sorry. Story time. I can't help it. But, yeah. You still have those? Oh, God.

Do you still have those autograph? I don't know. I don't know. Oh, sure. Sure. I had an autograph baseball. There was a. From back when the Braves were terrible.

I can't remember his name, but I got him to autograph a baseball because he showed up at some promotional event in my hometown. My dad made sure I went there. Sometimes I think I should write his biography. Right, right. Well, I'll tell you, my dad would have been 104. back on August 6th. I was going to call in that day, but you were kind of busy with some other callers, but he would have been 104 this year.

Wow. And that doesn't even sound right to me either. So he was born in 1922. A 22, yeah. My dad would have been 100 in 2024. Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah.

So your dad's 100. 102. Wow. And my mom's 101 because she was born in 1925. Oh, wow. Well, my mom was 12 years younger than my dad. She was born in 34. So that's, yeah, but I was going to say my dad wasn't able to go to World War II. They wouldn't take them because he broke his shoulder on the farm. And so he had a, you know, he had a, you know, he had a bad shoulder so so they didn't take him but his buddy when they went to enlist he couldn't go either because he found out that he had a heart murmur they told me he had to go to some heart specialist that same thing happened to my grandfather in the first world war my grandfather kincade uh he showed up and you know he mustered and oh there's something wrong with your heart you don't

get to join the army and go over there. You don't get to be a doughboy. But they took my paternal grandfather, and there's a photo of him and there's a little, little, that sounds awful. Just, you know, that World War I dough boy uniform just looks so awkward. Awkward, yeah. Right. Yeah.

And he's just standing there staring at the camera with that. He's standing there looking at the camera with this. deer in the headlights look on his face. Oh, sure. And like four years later, when they took a panoramic photo of his mind crew, his mind shift outside the Gawley Mountain Coal Company, at the time of that photo,

he was months away from becoming a father for the first time. and again he's just sitting there he's just standing there looking with like a deer in the head was stunned just looking straight ahead you know just blank faced and yeah don't you hit that when that happens when someone snaps a picture and you're not really prepared oh no I think that I think it was shock because I hadn't really thought about the fact that he's got the same look on his face in his doughboy uniform as he did in his coal mine work clothes. Oh, really? Yeah, I mean, it's that same just blank what the hell is happening look on his face.

And I need to say thank you to too much Hutch, an a la carte donation toward tonight's or tomorrow's fundraising, meeting Steve's challenge, so we're down to $280 to go on Katz Challenge. My beloved feline fur baby, Gus, just returned home with me, but we need to go back in the morning for a procedure, welcoming any and all positive vibes and prayers for Gus. Absolutely, all of them heading Gus's way, Hutch. Wow. Our fur babies mean so much to us. Oh, yes, yes, yes, they sure do. I would like to have a dog, but I can't walk it and stuff during the wintertime and all that.

And then I live in an apartment too. I don't like to tie a dog up in an apartment. They like to get out and run and chase squirrels or something. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. When we were in the park on Sunday, I saw all the squirrels were out and romping. Oh, yeah.

Do you have those big ones down there? there too. Oh, they have a big... Geez, they're a huge sum of them. Yeah, they're pretty good size. And the other thing I've seen a couple of times here in Parkersburg that I don't see at home, there are some black squirrels. I swear to God, no smart, no smart-ass emails.

But, I mean, they're obviously squirrels, but they are solid black. Wow. And when I first went out to Missouri for college, I had never seen a rent. squirrel. Because all the squirrels at home were gray. Oh, gray. But the red squirrels were beautiful. And there's a guy.

I've seen his reels. I've seen his reels online. And I'd really love to get one. He makes squirrel boxes that you mount in trees. They're nice little houses for the squirrel population. And so a squirrel family will adopt the box. and then the boxes are constructed in such a way that you can put like a little

fiber optic camera in it and you can watch the squirrels and the videos that I've seen are just wonderful they're touching and funny sometimes and sweet and and squirrels are smart and they're very competitive

and they're constantly at work, making sure the other squirrels don't know where their nut stash is. Right. And they'll actually move their nut stash from location to location to to keep it away from other squirrels. Other squirrels, sure, right. The natural world amazes me. Oh, God, yeah.

And the other... Yeah, we have the red squirrels up here, too. And they're smaller, aren't they? And we have a lot of chipmunks. Yes, they are. They are smaller. And we have a lot of chipmunks. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. And they're kind of cute. Have you ever seen, do you have those down there? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We got chipmunks.

We've got, you know, whistle pigs. I used to have one on the farm. That was pretty tamed. and I used to feed them. And, you know, they would make that funny noise that, you know, that kind of that, you know, that noise. They'd kind of chirp as you. They'd chatter at you. And, yeah, right.

And then, you know, I would feed him some bread or something. And I had this one, and he was very, very, very friendly, and he would come right up to me. And I could almost pet him, you know. I mean, I would hand him the food. but he would always come up to me every time he'd see me. On social media, I try to protect, on social media,

Kurt, I try to protect my algorithm. So, I watch a lot of nature and animal videos and stuff. And there's one account called Poppy the Prairie Dog. And it's a guy in Florida who has a prairie dog.

And she's just precious. and it's kind of the tagline for the whole thing is he'll say Poppy and Poppy the Prairie Dog

will pop up and say woohoo because it's her little prairie dog bark and it's just as cute as it can be but I love all of that stuff

and oh yeah and even down you know even down to the insect world I love the little jumping spiders

spiders. Spiders, yeah. I try to get spiders outside when they decide they want to look around the studio. Oh, sure. But I got a little freaked out a couple of weeks ago because a wasp of some sort

found its way into the mansion and particularly into my bedroom. And I was like, I'm sorry, you've got to die but then before I executed it I decided to try to find out what sort of wasp it was

oh sure and it turned out it was a muddobber but it was it had these long these wings that were as long as its body and they were kind of a shimmering blue black and they're

fascinating animals but I continue to read and they're like they're not aggressive toward humans so I knew that that poor little wasp was just lost so I decided to spare its life I'm not nearly I'm not nearly as kindly temperance

tempered toward you know say yellow jackets mud other mud daubbers red wasps no those fuckers are hateful um well we're not what is the killer bees? Yeah, but just to finish. Down in the south? It turns out this wasp, it's something,

something Californicus. Oh, I see. I see. And it's not aggressive toward humans. And what it does is it actually preys on a different species of muddobber. It will invade their nest and eat their larvae. but its favorite snack, and this was the part that kind of worried me a little bit, this this, this wasp is real handy because its favorite snack is Black Widow spiders. Oh, wow. And so it was like, ah, does that mean I sure is shit hope I don't. Ooh, right. But, but I then, because I go down these rabbit holes, Kurt.

I went down this wasp rabbit hole and I found a video of how it catches black widows because there's something about its body that it is immune to the stickiness of a spider web. And so it will deliberately, it will deliberately land in the web and throw a connoption going, oh, help, help, I am trapped in the spider web. Oh my God, this is terrible. And the Black Widow comes over and goes, ha ha ha, you're my lunch. And he goes, no, I'm not stuck to your web.

You're my lunch. And no more Black Widow. Wow. Now, I never heard of that. Wow, that's interesting. You know, there's something to be said for trying to learn something new every day. Well, nature has a way of adapting, doesn't it? Indeed. What's the line from Jurassic Park? Life finds a way.

Meanwhile, a note from Matt and San Francisco saying, Nutstash, every time I tune in, dirty talk, Roxanne, get your mind out of the gutter. What? It's me who has the issue? Well, I never. Well, that's not true. I've had my fair share of Nutstash. It's signed Matt in San Francisco. and so a Ramalama rim shot. The first of the evening, in fact, and it goes to Matt. You know me, Matt. You've known me for a long time. We find a way to send this program into the gutter most every evening.

Well, it ends on a high note anyway. Yes, and Brother Deacon Asa says, black squirrels, you say? Were they hung a little sturdier than the gray one? Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes I question my life, Joyce's, Kurt, I really do. But I've got to get out of here. It has been a lovely conversation. I'm so glad you called in. You always raise the quality and the temper and the conversational quality of this program,

and I thank you so much. Oh, well, I enjoy the repoltage, the same. Indeed. Well, you have a great evening. Okay. You do. You too. Happy 100 and fourth. Happy 104th birthday to your father in the Great Beyond. Oh, well, thank you very much. Well, take care, everybody. We'll talk again sometime. Yes, let's do. See you, Kurt. Bye now.

You bet. You bet. Bye-bye. Kurt is one. You know, that's the thing about the members of this community who call in. everybody is just so wonderfully unique and and I learn so much and I often wonder you know the the folks who do the commercial stuff do they ever feel do they ever get to feel the connection that I get to feel every evening because it's it's it's entirely real for me and it kind of proves that yeah relationship ships that form on the internet can be real indeed so thanks everybody uh we're we got down 120 bucks this evening on cats challenge we are at 280 to go to finish it off maybe that

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