This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Season 9 Potpourri

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

We're back for Season 9!!! Mike starts us off with an update on his car troubles, and talks about a few other subjects.

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Can't you see there's so much more? Laughs and tales you can't ignore A journey that will leave you floor In the night or in the day Just press play we're on our way Voices sharp Hello everyone. So here we are. Season 9 of this podcast is on Call 4. For those of you who are new to the podcast, my name is Mike Chernevsky. I started this podcast as a way to kill time and examine certain aspects of my life and interview my friends in the process. and as we've evolved over the five plus years that we've been doing the podcasts and now

on to a ninth season, we've met new people, met experts, revisited the past, and had a lot of fun. And I want to continue doing that for the foreseeable. future. Let's be honest, I'm having way too much fun doing this podcast and everything. So, yeah. So,

we're going to start season 9 with a poopery of certain topics. So we'll start with a topic that lingers large during the

KC fringe festival. which is available now all the shows that are re-recorded turn that are available now. So please feel free to listen to that. So if you recall from the fringe episodes, my car was in the shop turn fringe. It had issues with starting. That sort of thing. is in the shop for two weeks, including all a fringe, during which they try to replace the engine control module.

So it's basically the computer that regulates the car, and for some reason it stopped working. Again, planned obsolescence at work here, because not even a week after getting out of the shop, those problems surface again. this time I'm waiting two months two months for a replacement part to come in

it doesn't come in so so thanks to my co-worker Mike we are able to find a much cheaper part on eBay by much cheaper

$50 on eBay and it came just after my birthday. I was able to take it to the shop. They were able to put that in, and they determined what the problem was. The problem was the camshaft sensors, where they found it replaced one. Turns I have two on there, so I wanted to be a second opinion. It's a local hidden I dealership. They told me about the second, and, oh, by the way, one of your axles needs to be replaced,

so that will be taking care of by the time this episode releases. And yeah, it's sent me back quite a ways, but it's starting. Okay, the only major issue I'm experiencing right now is with phantom codes on this eBay control module. So as a result, I have a perpetual check engine light. If you have ever seen the Big Bain theory, there was a running joke where Sheldon was reluctant to ride with Penny. Full disclosure, my niece Penny is named after Penny on Big Bang Theory. But he was reluctant to ride with Penny because Penny was not... not concerned about her

car's proper maintenance and she perpetually had a check engine light on which freaked the hell out of Sheldon your check engine light is on maybe you should check your engine so that's what I'm going through right now the check engine line is on

all the time now but it is running pretty good maybe a minor issue was starting once or twice turned out my decision with the new fuel pump to switch to no ethanol gas had no impact whatsoever on the

on the car's performance but it's a slightly more expensive everything so I need to be a little more careful what I do in my free time time if you will so so yeah yeah we got that going on um still undecided about whether I will do 2025 Casey fringe but I can tell you about a couple of projects I have been working on one I want to do a documentary on the Casey streetcar after both the main

street and riverfront extensions are completed and open. I am sure recording this on El Dio dos Mueros, November 2nd, 24. A lot of the, most of the construction on the main street extension is complete. They're still putting track in between the plaza and UMKC stops. So I'm nearing in that. line almost all the remainder of the track is in including what they shut down the entire streetcar system to do and as to tie the northbound parts of both the extension and the starter line together so that is that is done the streetcar is back up and running with a brand new platform at union station for the northbound track

So, what it used to do for, I was not familiar with the KC streetcar used to, stop at Union Station on the southbound track, it would go no further. And then going northbound, it would do a crossover just north of the Skywalk bridge. there the SkyWa Connecting Union Station to Crown Center there was crossover there and that's how go on North Manor around the loop

and back down well they took that cross over out so they put a new crossover to the south so now crosses right at Pershing Road and Main Street and

and they put in a another crossover at Westport Road and Main Street further down. So you could segregate the line a couple ways and they're going to need to do that in a few years. Anyway, when they start work on the East West. Now with the railroad fronts, they started, there's now track up to the bridge. They just reopened the streets just yesterday. actually they were going to reinforce the bridge and take down a coal shoot that crossed over the bridge so the coal shoots down the bridge has been reinforced but they are

waiting till I guess the spring to put the rest of the track into the bridge but on the riverfront end of the bridge the track is in going through what used to be sidewalk in the Berkeley Riverfront Park and of course the stop is not in yet they haven't built the stop yet at the riverfronts but where stop would be was where the only cool shelter was in that park with the stone pillars and everything but it'll be it'll be fun to see the whole line open and that's why we're waiting until 2026 to actually shoot a documentary uh think jeff marshall and his uh secrets of the underground series um or uh those unfamiliar jeff marshall he's uh an english youtube who is uh really into trains in transit and did a whole series on the london

underground he did a video per line of the underground so there's one on the central line there's one of the piccadilly line and so on and so forth pointing out cool things at each and every stop well when this when these extensions are done we're talking 19 different stops on the line and uh yeah it'll be cool to uh just do something in that vein and bring in the local film committee to help out with that.

I've only told one other person about this particular project at the time I'm recording this and that is a friend of the podcast Caroline Bainer. And she's been quite busy lately yet too. And I'm just, I'm happy for her

and proud of her for getting out there and getting some good creative work all right so this being a popery episode we'll talk about a few other things too

but oh yeah I was going to talk about the other project I was doing and that is I started work on another podcast this one is called the Ultimate Fam Lounge tougher in the initials this is a

UFO podcast and I've talked about the UFO on this podcast too but I think it'd be cool to just devote an entire podcast to the league as a fan so far I have 10 episodes and some version of doneness an introduction eight team profile episodes which I will reach out to the UFO community and get fans of the different teams on board, though I will tell you the Balhawk episode is the longest of them so far and probably will wind up being the long

the longest of the team profiles because that's my team you know, and I've got to kind of represent and they are the closest team to me, the St. Louis Balahawks and Sandlin not going not playing on going any games this year although I do understand they'll be playing six home games this year. They'll be playing San

Antonio twice at the dome and San Antonio gets one for your game because of a scheduling conflicts nothing nefarious or all that but I'm looking forward to the UFL season I'm of course recording this during the NFL season and our local team are undefeated at the time I'm recording this and of course the whole Travis and Taylor thing. They're still very much together, and she is still when she has the time going to his

games, but the only games she's been going to are right here at Arrowhead. And they say no, security concerns, and I get it. My understanding is she had some

problems with terrorists attacks at one of her Europe location. in Vienna actually so hopefully the

hopefully they get that stuff addressed and everything but

oh yeah so what else did I want to talk about in this popery episode talked about my car

I talked about the street car project. It talks about the UFL podcast. Oh yeah. Let's talk

about elections. So election day is just around the corner. I do fear that there's a very very real possibility. It could wind up

either being deported or in a detention center somewhere because I've used this podcast to publicly criticize a certain

candidates for office who has threatened to put people like me in prison or mental hospital or get them deported or something. So that is a very real possibility. I'm afraid. Remote, but still very much real. That said, I can't

bring myself to support what's supposedly my side. of the aisle and I strongly suggest to listen to the presidential politics discussion I had with

Amy Bell because I do address my concerns there by the way and we'll be well past the election by this point. Hopefully the transition of power

happens smoothly and with that hitch and without terrorists infiltrating the capital this time but I did wind up making good on my suggestion of just writing in

Bernie Sanders for president all right let that be a lesson to the Democratic Party I am tired of this rights word shift that I've noticed in the party all right we got to stop that

all right it's gone to the point that if a true leftist party were to start in America I would sign up in a heartbeat and no I don't consider the Green Party it would be truly leftist unfortunately that bar our version of the Green Party has way to make issues for me to associate with them so hopefully some sort of progressive party comes into being or anything I would also take issue with any talk of conservatives starting a third party. I would say a conservative party already exists for sane Republicans. It's called the Democratic Party.

It's what Bill Maher said was true. The Democrats had moved to the center, it may center-right and the Republicans into a mental hospital. All right, there is absolute truth to that. And I'm sick of the right word shift of my party. If a true leftist party does appear on the scene, I will gladly sign up a heartbeat. All right.

That said, let's be honest, the way we pick presidents in this country is outdated, has failed us twice in this century gave us first he gave us W and then it gave us four years of the worst presidents ever

or at least the worst present post World War II that of course would be dining dumb fuck the process is called the Electoral College how it works as each state gets a certain number of roads minimum of three maximum of whatever the max state has plus two and those are based on the two sides seats that each state gets by default and however

many members of Congress they have at the point minimum of three so two senators and one representative DC because of constitutional amendments automatically gets three and

hopefully Puerto Rico is okay for statehood by the time we're doing this because I understand they are voting yet again

on a referendum for statehood this election cycle and hopefully it passes and hopefully we can put a 51st

star on the flag and while I'm saying fuck you Donnie have further further escalating the possibility that could be deported

or institutionalized or something I was going to say Puerto Ricans are American citizens so let's show them the identity of don't someone make them a state already

okay they're not a floating pile of garbage as your surrogate in our fully put. So yeah, let's treat these people with

a little more respect. And if you have problem with people speaking Español, stay the fuck away from McDonald's, I mean, because at this point, they all have to learn how to speak Spanish. I

I do applaud them for learning decents English at this point but if they're more comfortable speaking Spanish let them speak Spanish all right and everyone hurts to learn the fucking language yourself all right again going back to what we've talked about in the past

that's Anglophone's which is a fancy way of saying English speakers are just too lazy unfortunately the only way to get rid of the electoral college is by constitutional amendment that's not happening anytime soon

so what a few states have done is they put together a interstate compact called the National Public Vote Interstate Compact

so it's a bunch of states that have come together and said you know let's vote for whoever wants the popular vote let's throw our

electoral votes in that direction so that we don't have a repeat of 2000 or 2016 but here's the catch it will only kick

in when they get enough electoral votes to take over half of the total electoral college, which is

270 votes. So the first states to sign on to this compact was Maryland back in 2007. I'm recording this near the end of 2024.

So that tells you how long this thing has actually been going on. So Maryland was first in 07-08. We signed on New Jersey, Illinois, and Hawaii. Hawaii did so

by overriding a veto from their Republican governor. And I should point out that all the states that are on board have done so mostly with Democratic majorities. And if there's a Republican governor, they've

found a way to override it. So good for the 09, Washington States came on board 2010, Massachusetts and D.C., our 52nd state, hopefully, came on board 2011, Vermont and California, came on board this compact California. By the way, has the most electoral votes with 54. at the time of this recording. Rhode Island would have been next in the 13, 14, we'll see New York added. And then we have to went until 2018

for the next day to come on board so that was connected. 2019, so Colorado, Delaware, New Mexico, and Oregon jump on board. 23. So Minnesota. come on board. Minnesota did so with the current Democratic vice presidential nominee.

And Maine was the most recent earlier this year in April, and they did so without this signature of a Republican governor. There have been other states, there have been other attempts by other states to get on board, and where it's 209 of the 270 right now. So it has to, it hasn't taken effect yet it's a shy 61 votes and that's where you're going to be looking at possibly swing states and red states to get on board and I think the most likely to get on board based on a more recent attempt I would include Nevada would be one

that one is pending they got passed it again in the next legislative session and it has to come to a public vote I understand there so that's a possibility Virginia

is another possibility it says continued to 2025 for them North Carolina I don't know what the hell is going on with North Carolina it says it's in committee and it's pending so

so we'll see with that one I think it came to a vote in one of the houses in Missouri and then Kansas it keeps getting introduced and keeps dying in committee for the same goddamn reason that even medical marijuana keeps dying in a committee. Because the lack of political will, or more accurately, the will of the Republicans in charge in Topeka

to keep these initiatives from going forward, couttsowing, to cokehead money. So And While I'm on the subject of telling politicians to go fuck themselves A special fuck you to State Senator Ty Masterson Fuck you, you Coke whore

That's Coke K-O-C-H Because one of the Koch brothers is still very much alive And causing Avec Avec around here

so yeah I think that's only really wanted to talk about we did wind up moving offices with the chess club so we're now in a situation that I pretty much have my own office in fact I'm recording this in my little office area it's pretty cool the only outside noise I have to really worry about bounce around here is we are across the hallway from someone who gives guitar lessons and and so far today I did hear a couple of instances why I'd be on the other side of the room where the door is and here some guitar music everything pretty cool but I don't know that

I don't know if it's gone to interfere with the ability to host recordings here. But this is a great place to do podcast recordings. And I did get a blessing from my boss that I can come in here and do recordings for the podcast. So yeah, we'll get this cleaned up a little bit and we'll start to host. recordings here. First line is we're here. We also have a second room in this building that's just

the playing hall. That's where all of our customers will be coming in to play some chess. And I'm going forward to doing all that. Otherwise,

I have health. doing uh i'm doing okay health-wise uh had a uh calling screening not the most pleasant of experiences uh it was the non-invasive thing where you where you uh take a yeah yeah you'll figure it out you'll figure your ads but it came back uh clean so so that's good but the process itself was not pleasant and thank God I was able to do that and avoid doctors sticking stuff up my

ass so a little bit of Eric Cartman and a little bit of Peter Griffin experienced Carmen having alien stick stuff up his ass and Peter having his doctors

take a finger up his ass I was raped Dr. Hatman Vario handed me. He took my in his chance. Peter, that's a prostate exam. So,

so yeah, I'm... Yeah, hopefully, hopefully I continue to do well, health-wise. And, uh, well, go from there. Because, yeah, I do want to keep doing this podcast for as long as I can. And I get to 200 episodes.

All right. That's been stated to goal. Got to stick around long enough to invite my niece, who is 12 at the time I'm recording this. So that's another six years I have to wait until she's at 18 and illegally able to be on this podcast without me begging my brother for his consent. I won't be around for the 30th high school reunion. So Brett Kassin, if you are listening, I will be more than happy to provide this podcast as live entertainment. So we do live recording, have you,

and whoever else wants to be on the podcast, on the podcast as part of the entertainment. And yeah, we got... Get off my lazy ass. and contact the big sick people on that being on because that would that would be that would be awesome to do and get some celebs on here and uh yeah i think that will do it for yeah i think that will do it for for uh this edition of the podcast and uh happy season nine to everyone and uh i'll talk to you again soon

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