 Welcome to Progressive Discussions. I'm your host, James P. Madonna. As seen on the web since 2007, it is now the end, believe it or not, the very end, the tail end of July 2023. And we are in the Dove Days of Summer, and the Dove Days of Summer are extra severe because of climate change, global warming, or having a heatwave. The world, for the most part, is having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave, except for the desert regions of the planet. As you well know, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the history of recording temperatures was in, I believe it was the airport in Tehran, Iran, was over 150 degrees Fahrenheit, dangerously high, dangerously high, not just uncomfortable, but dangerously high. Death Valley, California saw, well, they rounded it off to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, but it was really like 128, but it's a big deal. I know it's a dry heat, but not when it gets that high. Then it becomes a pizza oven. And you can blame greedy capitalism along with its inherent corruption for all of this, for the slow dying of our planet. And some of you might be wondering, well, you know, James P. Madonna of the Breast of Discussions used to discuss mostly politics. Well, that is true. It's in anything important to the species, the humanoid, the despicable creatures known as humanoid. That is true, but now I do an open topic talk, anything that's important to you that's not ridiculous and silly, and you're not a troll, we can discuss. I have been focusing at the beginning of this show, the serious segment of progressive discussions. I have been focusing on environmental climate change articles, much more than partisan politics. And the reason being is I feel that the health of Mother Earth and the, including all of its living creatures, is more important than partisan politics. It's connected with our survival and the survival of all of God's creatures, specifically all of the endangered species, and may they rest in peace, the extinct species, all because of mankind's greed, greed for money, materialism. Capitalism, it's all connected to capitalism because they don't give a rat's ass about the environment, about the planet, all they care about is stuffing their pockets from the bribery that they accept from the fat cats. It could be big agra, it could be big pharma, we know it's big oil and the massive campaign contributions taken by establishment two-party system politics. And when you take big money from the big corporations, you owe them big favors in return once you get elected. Like Jesse Ventura once said, a politician is not obligated to meet with lobbyists. You're really not. And he refused to. So anyway, let me go to, I don't have a lot of topics, but they're pretty important. And, I mean, I could, we could always talk about politics once McFawn Raven comes aboard, my right-hand man, my good buddy, longtime buddy, and right-hand man on the internet, on social media, social media, right-hand man, McFawn or even, but I try to start off with the lightest topics, even though I don't consider it as the light. Okay, let me get this article up there with me, as I always say. Here we go. The world's rarest raptor hangs on thanks to an invasive species. Okay. Here we have a very, very endangered species, one of God's creatures. The moroteus casserole benefits from a plant that's harming the island's ecosystem, complicating conservation efforts. But it was mankind that made this beautiful raptor, this beautiful, beautiful, small raptor, severely endangered. Fifty years ago, only four, that's right, four moroteus casseroles remain alive, making the bird, the world's rarest raptor. After a labor-intensive recovery, the species numbers are falling again. Oh boy, look at the size of this font. I'll do my best. In 1974, the moroteus casserole, a photogenic bird with a special white breast and a vibrant red, black, red back, I'm sorry, with a vibrant red back and crown, came frighteningly close to extinction. Only four individuals remained, thanks to decades of captive breeding on the Indian Ocean Island of moroteus. The casserole population climbed to 1,000 birds. That's promising. Half a century later, as their numbers once again decline, another species is helping the charismatic raptors hang on the travelage tree, a palm-like plant in the genus Ravenala. Forgive me, the font is really small, but travelage trees are invasive to moroteus and are causing problems for other native species in the ecosystem. Conservationists are now facing, are now faced with the challenge of how to remove the plant without harming the casserole. And that goes into detail of what originally harmed the casserole. It's a fine balance, says Vincent Florence, an ecologist at the University of Moroteus and the lead author of a new study that describes the beneficial relationship between travelers, trees and the birds. We might, we might weed out Ravenala in a heavy-handed way and with very good intentions, actually cause more harm. The casserole's first brush with extinction came after centuries of logging had stripped most of the island's evergreen forests, wiping out the large trees with cavities that the diminutive raptor needs for nesting introduced predators, including ship rats, those are stowaway rats from, from Europe, most likely, ferrocats and mongooses sped up the population's decline, as did the use of DDT, a chemical insecticide that weakened the birds, eggs and caused many young to die before hatching. Now, after three decades of relative stability, the species has fallen to as few as 350 birds, wow, from 1,000, okay, possibly due to inbreeding and ongoing habitat loss. You know, thank you, humanoids. So their study, in their study, don't forget this font is very small, in their study, Florence and his colleagues observed that travelers, trees provide ideal habitat for the casserole's main prey, the blue-tailed day gecko. They're so pretty, those, those lizards. And the moreteous upland forest day gecko. Well, I guess that keeps the day gecko population down. The vibrantly colored cold-blooded lizards bask on the plant's stiff leaves, which grow in spectacular vertical fans and dominate, and dominant male geckos, defend territories from the tops of the stems, just as they once did on native hurricane ponds, which are now extremely rare in the wild. Ravanala, nectar, and fruit also attract insects that the geckos eat. Geckos are now thriving, if you and I were geckos. The Ravanala would be the closest we could find to a palm in those forests today, says Florence. There's a pharaoh. Now, this is a young day gecko. Day geckos are day geckos because they're not nocturnal, they're diurnal. And they, just like many geckos, they eat nectar from flowers. They eat rotten fruit as well as insects, like the geckos of New Caledonia, the crested geckos, gargoyle geckos, and such. Travelers tree negatively impacts thousands of species on moroteas, but the invasive tree provides excellent habitat for the geckos. The moroteas, kestrels, primary prey. Okay. And kestrels are chowing down. Florence and his team found that geckos made up 70% of the birds diet at 28 nesting sites in southeast moroteas. Well, the kestrels don't have to go far to hunt these lizards. You know, the lizards are rich in the calcium needed to strengthen kestrel eggs. Okay. So far, so good. And birds with nests surrounded by travelers trees produce more fledglings, however, Florence cautions that the invasive tree also has immense costs for local biodiversity. Travelers trees native to Madagascar, which is 100 kilometers about 700 miles to the west of moroteas, were first introduced to moroteas in 1751. The plant seeds sheaved in bright blue papery coats, caught the eye of fruit-eating bats and birds that spread travelers trees across the island, along with other invasive plants, including strawberry guava trees from Brazil. Guava is very nutritious tropical fruit. I'm sure the geckos would love that. Travelers trees crowd the forest, understory, pushing out native plant species, and the beetles, butterflies, and other insects that have evolved to feed on them. In turn, this means less food for small insectivorous bats and birds like flycatchers, bull bulls, bull bulls, and white eyes, wherever they are. Florence estimate that species negatively impacts thousands of different species on moroteas. Well, this is all influenced by man. Scientists may need to intervene without knowing the outcome. You know, this is just one little story of how mankind and their careless interference has affected the thriving and existence of species on earth. Let's see. Okay, before we go on to the environment and climate change, let us do a little Donald Trump, CNN politics, do a little Donald Trumpy, Trump and Stein monster. Sure, taking a long time to get him in that orange jumpsuit that will match his hair and skin. All right. Takeaways from the new charges against trying to get this crap take these from the new charges against Trump aid and moral argo worker in classified documents case. There's the smug look on the Trump and Stein monsters face. Okay. I would play the video, but there's some strange reason. The streaming microphone doesn't pick up videos from other websites. I should, I should, I should ask tech support if they know anything about why this happens. Special counsel, Jack Smith expanded his classified documents case against former president Donald Trump, making significant new allegations of Trump and his employees attempted to delete moral argo security footage sought by the grand jury investigating the mishandling of the government records. New, the new charges were presented in what's known as a superseding indictment that was handed up by a grand jury in Florida on Thursday. A third defendant moral argo employee Carlos D. Olivera was also added to the case. He is accused alongside Trump and Walt Nauta of it, of obstructing the investigation with the alleged bid to delete security footage at Trump's Florida resort. Well, he was doing what he was told by Trump and he was just Trump got him involved, just like the January 6th traders insurrections just, just got sucked into the devious narcissistic world of Donald Trump. Trump also faces a new charge stemming from the allegedly mishandled classified documents that are not core of the case with prosecutors identifying a new document reported by CNN to be possible. Iran attack plans that they say Trump unlawfully retained. Trump and Nauta pleaded not guilty to the initial round of charges Smith brought in the case last month. He always please not guilty. The filing of the new charges illustrates the depth and breadth of legal jeopardy that Trump finds himself. A potential indictment against Trump in Smith's election subversion pro continues to loom against the former president and possible charges are expected in weeks to come in the Fulton County, Georgia investigation into Trump and his allies post election conduct as well. Here's what to know about the new charges in the classified documents case. Trump requested deletion of security footage. The indictment accuses Trump of being a part of the effort to delete security footage from Mar-a-Largo after it was subpoenaed, saying that Trump requested that a resort employee delete footage in order to to quote to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury. The newest defendant in the case places the former president in the middle of the attempts to delete security footage according to the indictment. The D.O. Vera told another Trump employee who was director of IT at Mar-a-Largo that the boss wanted the server deleted according to the indictment. This happened in June 2022 after prosecutors had subpoenaed for the security footage when the unnamed Trump employee identified as employer E4 responded that he would not know how to do that and did not believe he would have the rights to do that. D. Olivera pressed him further again referencing the boss prosecutor said so if the boss told you to jump off the golden gate bridge does that mean you have to do it? D. Olivera then insisted to Trump employee for that the boss wanted the server deleted and asked what are we going to do? The indictment alleges according to the indictment D. Olivera asked the IT employee how long the server retained security footage. He was told it was approximately 45 days. The Olivera also said that the conversation should remain between the two of them according to the indictment. The Olivera also spoke by phone twice with Trump after Trump's lawyers were notified of plans to subpoena the security footage. Trump and Norah had already been charged with obstruction over the moving of boxes. But now the latest charges add a new dimension to the obstruction case that goes beyond hiding the documents themselves. Trump alleged mishandling of an Iran attack plan adds to the charges. The new indictment brings the number of counts Trump faces for retaining national defense information up to 32. The prosecutors adding a new count 31 they previously brought for a classified document described by prosecutors as a top secret. Present tension can concerning military activity in a foreign country. Trump allegedly touted the document which CNN previously reported related to Iran attack plans in a taped July 2021 interview with biographers at his Bedminster New Jersey golf club. I think that's where the late Ivana Trump is buried. The new changes I wonder if her grave is one of the 18 holes on the golf course. There's a little levity folks. The new changes and details in the superseding indictment contradict Trump's past denials about the document in question. Trump had previously denied that the document he discussed in the audio tapes was a government document describing it instead as a news clipping. Okay, now I could play the audio, but I really don't know if it's going to be heard, but I could. Anyway, it goes on and on and on and on and on. And on. Let's see. Listen to audio exclusively obtained by CNN of July 2021 conversation during which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held on to a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran. And then he goes on to say, there was no document. Trump told Fox News last month that was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about Iran and other things, other things. Well, like your buddy, my pillow, and it may have been held up or may not. But that was not a document. I didn't have a document per se. There was nothing to declassify. These were newspaper stories, magazine stories and articles Trump said in an interview. Let's see. Let's see if let's see if the the microphone picks it up. He's a bad, sick people. That was your coup, you know, against you. Well, it started right at the end. When Millie's talking about, oh, you were going to try to do a coup. No, they were trying to do that before you even were sworn in. That's right. Trying to overthrow your life. Well, with Millie, let me see that. I'll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Stop being picked up. Oh, well. So he's going to keep denying until they absolutely prove all 32 charges without a shadow of a doubt. You know, they're taking their sweet time, taking their sweetest time. Let's go on to the climate change. We'll start off with Miami Beach, which is not good because no one likes to go from a hot, humid heat wave into the ocean to try to cool off and find themselves jumping into a bathtub. No one likes that. Oops, I'm sorry. What was that? No one likes that. Go on to this. No one likes that. Again, I apologize for the microscopic font. I don't know why they do this. On Monday has much. Hold on for a second. I need to get a drink of my special antioxidant rich medicinal iced tea that I make myself with lemon, sweet lemon wedges. My one hundred percent was a Moscow mule copper mug. I had Moscow mules for the first time. This past month, they're not bad. I wouldn't do handstands over them, but they're not bad. On Monday, as much of the country stood in bubbling heat, a boiling milestone was hit. A buoy in Florida registered a draw drop in one hundred and one degrees Fahrenheit water temperature. This was on the heels of the same buoy in Manatee Bay, registering one hundred point two degrees on Sunday. For perspective, the average hot tub temperature is one hundred to one hundred and two degrees Fahrenheit. What did I say before? OK, they're they're referring, I believe, to last Sunday and Monday. While the readings would have been considered a possible outlier outlier or sensor error. Surrounding buoys recording similar high temperatures. With ninety nine point three at Murray Key and ninety eight point four at a fat Johnson Key. I wanted a fat Johnson never was to wait. Another reason why these water temperature readings are being taken seriously is the fact that experts have been tracking the exceptionally warm water temperature readings that have ranged from ninety two to ninety seven degrees since early July. Don't forget we have we may have a very severe hurricane season coming up soon, very severe. For the majority of the month and unusual weather pattern for the summer months for the region has been the driving factor. That pattern has featured a stagnant set up fueled by a strong area of high pressure that has led to days of above average and in many cases, record setting air temperatures. OK, and it's killing, by the way, it's killing coral on the much protected coral reefs bleaching the coral. OK, that's what this video is about, but the audio won't be picked up. And I have no idea why it does that with streaming software, streaming companies. The pattern has also led to weaker than average trade winds. That's another problem. Trade winds usually produce Southeast winds, so OK, that's head right into the area where where hurricanes develop. Maybe that's the cool air that meets with the hot air over the Sahara Desert in Africa. And the two colliding extremes cause the cyclones. That's our hurricanes and all storms. Our forms, cold front meeting a warm front, in this case, a hot front. OK, trade winds usually produce Southeast winds and a sea breeze for South Florida. Which helps to keep the sea surface temperatures in check. Instead, winds have been out of the West and weak. Allowing sea surface temperatures to heat up. Don't forget we're in El Nino. OK, but for some reason, the Atlantic Ocean temperatures are abnormally warm, which is not supposed to happen. It only happens normally in the Pacific Ocean. Still, despite a month of record setting, water temperatures already in the history books. Sunday and Monday's 100 degree water temperature reading stunned experts, factors that could have played a role in spiking the water temperature above 100 degrees air temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. Number two, weak winds across the region of west in 10 miles an hour. Strong sunlight, hitting shallow water, which heats up faster than deep water. Yeah, no kidding. Silty, silty water leading to darker color, causing more absorption of sunlight and additional heating. Think of clear water versus murky water as being similar to cement versus asphalt. The darker the color, the more absorption and hotter the temperatures. This is why I always tell. Women, instead of wearing a hat, get yourself like a small, portable, light colored umbrella for the sun, light colors. Oh, if you don't have. Wound, dark inner drapes to keep your home dark and help keep it cooler. Get all white linen sheets and put them over the windows, just like people in the in the Middle East, men in the Middle East where the white coverings, the light colored coverings on their head. OK, yes, the dark, dark colors absorb the sun's radiation, whereas lighter colors reflected. That is very true. The water temperatures. I'm sorry, I digress a little. The water temperatures recorded Sunday and Monday will challenge the record for how to see surface temperature in the world, while official world water temperature records aren't kept. A ninety seven. I mean, I'm sorry. And a ninety nine point seven degree temperature recorded in Kuwait. Bay is considered the world record at this time. Not anymore. Iran beat it by by all the I'm sorry, the water temperature was ninety seven point seven degrees. My mistake, water temperature, not air temperature. Iran set the record for that due to factors like proximity to land and the silty nature of the water. The temperatures in the corridor of Florida would have to go through an extensive verification process. Verification process. I think I think jumping from the frying pan into the furnace is enough proof for me. OK, let's go on to the next environmental. OK, this this has to do with the coral bleaching. You know, the coral reefs. Such a delicate ecosystem and since so many sea creatures are dependent on the coral reefs. Before I go on to the second to the last topic, let me say hello to the one and only Western Mike. Howdy, Western Mike in San Francisco, California. Vermont homes in trouble from flooding. That's true El Nino since before summer. This weather, no good. Yes, it's it's scary. It's dangerous. Even this morning, slightly breezy at nine. You know, the high temperatures. Have not let up. Come nightfall over here. They I mean, like I've seen close to midnight. Of with 80 degree temperatures at night. That's unheard of. You know, and thank you for stopping by Western Mike. Good to hear from you again. All right, let me go on to the next subject here. OK, got you. Florida Ocean temperatures. Searched to 100 degrees as mass coral bleaching event is found in some reefs. Very bad because I used to go snorkeling a lot. Any time I went. Visited the Florida Keys when my aunt and uncle were alive. They had a they had a condominium on the water and I used to go snorkeling down the arrow of Key West and sombrero beach, as well as any time I went to the Caribbean on vacation. And it was just an extreme pleasure to see the beautiful tropical marine creatures frolic about. You know, see how these scientists are trying to save coral reefs. An urgent rescue operation is on the way to save Florida coral species from extinction as a mass bleaching event and die off from unprecedented water temperatures spreads across reefs in the Florida Keys. Multiple reefs around the Florida Keys are now completely bleached or dead in a grim escalation that took place in as little as two weeks. Coral experts say experts now say they expect complete mortality of the bleach reefs in just a week and worry that reefs at greater depths could face the same fate if the unprecedented ocean warmth continues to escalate. Extreme extreme heat and a lack of rain and winds pushed water temperatures around Florida to some of the highest levels ever observed anywhere. OK, and like the previous article, a boy in the Florida Bay hit 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit at a depth of five feet. Monday, which is shallow in an open out in an area where coral is scant, many of the stations in the area top 96 degrees Fahrenheit, including one that hit 99 degrees according to the National Data Buoy Center. And here is. Oh, wow, they mentioned the reef. I used to go snorkeling at home. OK, here we have a map of South Florida. Here's Manatee Bay. OK, 100, 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit. Bob Allen, which I guess is the name of the key, 96.6 degrees Fahrenheit, Murray Key, which is here almost on the Gulf of Mexico, almost 99.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's Marathon. OK, this is Miami all the way up here. Then we have Homestead, the last city or town on the mainland Florida. Here's Marathon Key, where my aunt and uncle live. So you could see the beautiful experience I had there between fishing and snorkeling. And then here's Key West, the end of Florida Keys. All right, the most significant concentration of coral isn't located in the shallower Florida Bay, where the readings were taken. But that matters little for coral around the Florida Keys, baking in water temperatures topping 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Coral is extremely sensitive to temperature changes. Yeah, as as as all aquatic life is. Temperatures that are too hot for too long cause coral to bleach and turn white as they expel with their algae food source and slowly starve to death. The water is typically in mid 80s in the region, experts say mid 80s. Temperatures at a reef managed by the Florida Aquarium were 91 degrees on July 6. The coral was completely healthy then. But when aquarium teams return on July 19, all of the coral was bleached and an estimated 80 percent of it was dead. Another report from the Coral Restoration Foundation found 100 percent coral mortality at some Brero Reef off the coast of Marathon in the Florida Keys. That's where my aunt and uncle lived, got a rest of their souls. That's where I used to go on vacation. And that's where I snorkeled one of the two places I snorkeled. I like I prefer the the reef off of Key West. That was my favorite reef that I ever snorkeled, ever. This is akin to all of the trees in the rainforest dying. The direct carry on the other director and senior scientist at the Florida Aquarium told CNN, where do all of the other animals that rely on the rainforest go to live? Yeah, where do they go? This is the underwater version of the trees in the rainforest disappearing. Corals serve that same fundamental role, the the the food chain. I found that the entire reef was bleached out. It's horrible. Here's an example of coral bleaching and death. Okay, coral bleaching as seen at Chica Rocks off Isla Marata. In the Florida Keys, Isla Marata. Is the only place in the Florida Keys that has an active resort. For holiday isle. Isla Marata is very nice. Terrible. What's going on? And now we we come to the end of the day. And now we we come to the last serious topic, which has to do with ocean temperatures. It's all interconnected. Ocean temperatures are off the charts. Here's where they're highest. Yikes. All right, make sure the map is up. Okay, this map came from the Washington Post. Um, which has a slogan underneath that says democracy dies in darkness. It sure does. I guess darkness would be the lack of information. People not knowing, not knowing sea surface temperature anomaly. And it goes from normal to warmer, as you can see by the colors going from blue slowly into yellow, orange, red, dark red. Okay. And just look at the oceans. And you can see that that the blue parts are like in the South Seas going towards Antarctica, but that's about it really. And well, some parts of the Pacific seem to be doing right here where Hawaii is. You can see some blue over here, but up here going from Asia straight across North Pacific, that would be the El Nino. See, this is the El Nino. But look at the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean during a normal El Nino is not supposed to have very warm temperatures. Close to being hot and talking about South Florida, the Earth's oceans have never been warmer every day since late March. The world's average sea surface temperature has been well above the previous highest mark for that day. And there will be ripple effects. Marine heat waves are affecting about 44% of the global ocean, whereas only 10% is typical. And they can have significant impacts on marine life as well as coastal communities and economies, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Want to know how your, okay, forget it, average daily ocean surface temperatures since 1981. As you can see how it climbed. Okay. Since 1981. Look how much it climbed. Here's where we are now. 2023, all the way up here. The sea surface temperatures shown include data from sixties and south, what? I'm trying to figure this out from sixties south to sixties north, of course, all like longitudes. Okay, longitudes. That's the going north to south. Sea surface temperature over here is zero Celsius to the far left, 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay, quite refreshing. That's, that's the point of freezing, by the way. Then we got in the middle as the color changes. Sixteen degrees Celsius is 60.8 degrees Fahrenheit. And then on the far right, we have 33 degrees Celsius, quite hot, 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit. That's pretty much the heatwave we've been having here in northeastern New Jersey and New York area. Okay, and, and the colors. Um, the dark, the darkest blue would be close to the freezing point to be expected, the Arctic Circle, right? And then 60 degrees, around 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and we have the lighter blue, which is the far north, north Atlantic by Iceland, northern Europe, Scandinavia, Greenland. I mean, not Greenland. Yeah, Iceland, Scandinavia, northern Europe. Then we have over here to the left, southern part of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest in Canada, lighter blue. And here, as the green gets darker, the temperature goes way up, gets darker, temperature goes way up, and the hottest would be the light yellow. That's the colors they use in this graph. So the light, the light yellow will be the hottest temperatures, ocean temperatures, and the green would be very warm, but not the problem. And over here, you can see all the light yellow. Raffle scientists are unsure what exactly has caused a rapid spike in, they're not sure, rapid spike in ocean temperatures first detected a march. They believe that it could be some combination of numerous factors. Well, that's, that's very true. And they're all caused by man. Mankind, humankind, the massive heat dome that have July attract to be the planet's hottest month on record and could make this the hottest year on record, reduced air pollution from ships, weaker winds carrying less to have a dust over the ionic ocean, and the influence of human cause climate change and El Nino, which itself is an abnormal warming of the waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean that alters weather patterns worldwide. Yeah, but now you have, now you have equally warm temperatures in the Atlantic is the problem. The exceptionally warm oceans are making heat waves worse, disrupting marine life and destroying coral reefs. They are also intensifying fires and flooding by increasing land temperatures and could make hurricanes stronger. You hear that? Here we take you on a tour of the worst of the oceans hotspots. That's exactly what I say. That's why, you know, the heat and drought has caused a Dante's Inferno in California with the forest fires and the Canadian forest fires in Quebec and Ontario, I believe, which was responsible for the very hazardous air quality smog that here in the Northeast has been affected by and it's not over yet in the North Atlantic levels beyond even extreme predictions. Sea surface temperature anomaly. Okay, the blue is cooler, normal is white and as you get into the color orange and red and here we go. This is the Atlantic Ocean here on the left. We have the United States, Boston here, you know, the white part is the Atlantic. Now look at the look at this part of the Atlantic, the North Atlantic by Newfoundland, by the Newfoundland up to Greenland, by the maritime provinces, look how hot this water temperature did and then and then as you go south, as you go south and east of the Atlantic, it gets cooler. This is fucked up right here in the North Atlantic between Greenland and the maritime provinces. This is very abnormal. The North Atlantic has baked in record daily warmth every day since early March with the average sea surface temperatures region now approaching 77 degrees Fahrenheit. That's pretty hot for that part of the world as hot as it's ever been and more than 2.5 degrees above average. The North Atlantic has warmed almost beyond the most extreme predictions of climate models. Well, that wraps it up for the the serious first part of progressive discussions. Really sad situation. What's going on here? And I will now send forth, I will now send forth the link for my panelists, starting with co-host, Mick von Raven. Wester Mike says 80 degrees at midnight when wind show factor at noon. Yeah, haha. Yeah, I'm telling you, it's all caused by the greed and corruption of mankind with capitals. Excuse me, got you like my my Moscow Mule 100% pure copper hammered mug. It turns even plain drinking water into a supercharged health drink. It does something to the molecules of plain water, which turns it into a super health drink. And it also retains the cold temperature for cold beverages too. I guess that's why that's why they use it for the Moscow Mule, which is ginger beer and vodka. Okay, let me hold on. Let me send forth the link. Bear with me. I always say bear with me. What else am I going to say? Nothing. Come on, let's get this freaking. Are you kidding me? My phone. My phone's acting a bit wacky here. Now here we go. Come on. Give me a fucking break. Still here. Any anything run by Mark Zuckerberg is loaded with glitches. There isn't a day that goes by where you just don't have glitches. I'm almost done while I wait for my panelist. Now it is time for Red Pill Mankade, the second half of the show, the second half of the show, where it becomes an open topic talk. Whatever is important to anyone out there that wishes to partake in the live stream show, you can bring it up, you can discuss anything that's important. As long as it's constructive and not absurd and ridiculous, it could be absurd to another person and not be absurd to you. See, that's the whole thing. So you do have a right to at least bring up the topic without being harassed, ridiculed or attacked. Do have that right. But it could be any topic. Any topic that's important to you. Okay. First, good morning, my dear Masumi from Japan. Masumi from the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan. Good morning. And I believe it is 5, 10 a.m. Monday in the land of the rising sun. So good morning to you, Masumi. And thank you for stopping by. Okay. Now I'm just sitting tight, relaxing, waiting for the panel. You're very welcome, Masumi. Very welcome indeed. I just wanted to thank performing artists and clothing designer, Paul Anthony Mantia for doing the live stream with me last night. It was our third show, I believe. It was our third show called Northern Lights Tie-Dye TV. It's a show that is pretty much just about music and fashion design. Very unique. The music was great as always performed by musicians songwriter Paul Anthony Mantia, celebrity performing artist Paul Anthony Mantia. Now what? I think it's a scammer. I'm being bombarded by scam. See, this is happening to me every day, all day long. Scam and it's coming from Facebook, I found out. He's stealing our personal data. This is what he's doing. Just report this. Yeah, this I found out it's coming from Facebook. And this has to do with Zuckerberg stealing our personal data without our consent and selling it. So what the scammers are doing now is they're using names and phone numbers of people that we know personally to try to get us to pick up the phone. See how sneaky they are? Quite sneaky. Terrible. Why can't they just make an honest living? You know, I guess making an honest living is not profitable enough for all the crooks. Let's see if I got any. Oh, I know what I'll do. Little surprise. Little surprise here. Little surprise. Well, I'm waiting for McVon Raven and the other panelists. It's just, you know, this is a good time to meditate and relax. And if anybody out there who does not want to be seen on video. That has something to contribute to the show. I mean, you could type any information, any question you have, any comment you have, you could type it. And I'll just, I'll just put it right across the bottom of the screen and acknowledge what you're saying. Acknowledge what you're saying. Okay, let's see. Hello. Oh, I don't know. And I assume I don't see, I don't, your video camera and your microphone is not working. You see below that little symbol, the rotary symbol, you have to click that to see, to activate your microphone and camera. It's like a little icon, a wheel, look like a wheel. On the right side, you have to click, that's the settings. You have to click that and then you click audio and video to make sure that your audio and video are working. This happened the last time to her. Strange. One moment, please. I wonder, I wonder if McVon Raven is on the porcelain throne, you have to try to go below the video and click on the little rotary wheel. It's a little symbol of a wheel. That's called settings. Then you, you go to audio and video to make sure that you select audio and video. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with her, her audio and video because she never had problems before. It was never any problem before, all of a sudden. Okay, so Western Mike has something to say. Went out Friday, went out Friday, went to the coffee shop today, otherwise been home since then. Already in week mode again, your weather sounds weird. Damn right, it's weird. You're welcome to come aboard, Mike. As always, what happens? You see, you see this, tell me if you see this, you see this symbol, you know, you've got, you go click and then you click audio and video and to make sure the camera is open and the audio is open. Yeah, I don't know what's, I don't know what's happening. Anyway, good morning, good morning to you. I'm sorry that it, it's not working. It's all right, you try, you try. Yeah, you try. Yeah, I'm waiting for, we'll try to click on that symbol that I showed you. You know, look like a, look like a wheel, look like a wheel. Yeah, that's called settings. Yeah, but anyway, try, try one more time and then if not, we, I talk to you later. All right, good morning. What are you going to do? Well, usually I have my panelists. So here he is, McVon Raven. Hello, it's me. Can you hear me? Hello, can you hear me? Yes. Okay, hold on. I want to get my Bluetooth turned on. Hold please. Bluetooth, where are you when I need you? You could put, you could put your screen on. You can go full screen if you want. Hold please, please be holding. I don't know how to do that. I'm not, it was, how do I do full screen? Yeah, on the, on the bottom, look, look for, on the bottom of your screen. Look for any symbol. Yes, I got it. It might have arrows going in different directions. It might, it might, it might, it might have an outline of a box. Well, it doesn't say go full screen, whatever I clicked on. No, it won't say go full screen. It'll be like an icon. They'll be welcome. And that says something about mirror, mirror camera and then visual background. Yeah, mirror camera is like, like if you're showing, if you're showing a bottle of beer and you want everybody to be able to read it, you have to take the mirror off, gotcha, but the full screen is usually a, just a plain old box or it's like arrows going like north, south, east, west, like in different directions. All right, I'm looking around, giving it a go, sir. Oh, that didn't work. No, it didn't work. No, it did. I saw you. But I turned it off and on. That's I didn't adjust anything. Gosh, there's not no adjust. You hit it and you go and you, and you, and you, you'll be like, you'll be like mine. You see, like the whole box, the whole box will be you. I don't know why this is not cooperating with me. Because fucking Steve Jobs is for his. He's haunting me from the grave. Yeah, try to, I saw it. It was going like this and then went away. Yeah, it's when I, what if I leave and come back? How about if I try that real quick? All right, try that. It's fun of all that stuff. Try it. That's a good thing about stuff like that. You know, you can always, you can always leave and come back. Sometimes disengaging what you're doing and returning something that simple is the solution in the world of computers and cyberspace. Yeah, I mean, that that's the issue that Paul Anthony Manthia had last night. He learned how to go full screen instead of that narrow shit. OK. No video feed. No, now what? Oh, there you go. Yeah, I hear you. My damn screen doesn't want to get as loud as I have screen and be. I wonder how I wonder why screen and I've got screen and I'm sorry. And you don't see and you don't see the icon, the icon like at the bottom. Phone, the camera, then an X. Oh, that's the ricks are nice. That's settings says video, the front front camera, standard definition. Um. You got a high def. Then a size does matter. I know that I've got high def so you can see all my blackheads, if you'd like, or something like that screen and be as far as far as as far as as far as going, that's like, that should be the first icon you see. It's kind of stupid. I'm sorry. Let's see. Reading list box within a box. I'm just going to wing it, I guess. How long have you been since three? Yeah, yeah, since three. I did the I did the the articles that there were excellent. There was one about Trump. He has 32 charges against him now. And did you see where he's stuck? He's the cop a dealer. He's going to die in prison. And he denies everything, you know, every single one of his seventy seven. Isn't he? Now, he's up there. Yeah, enough to get a ten year prison term. You're a dead man. He he denies. He says he didn't he didn't have any documents, only newspaper articles. Yeah, well. Actual news, I can flick. That his new version news are clippings. And oh, the 32, the charge number 32 was that he had classified military information about Iran's threat threats to attack the United States in different ways. Yes. Yeah, that was number that was number 32. So he's going to go down in a flaming heap. He's in real real trouble because he likes to confess what he did, too. He's that stupid. He likes to talk about it publicly. So bye bye, the Don. I mean, the fact that he pleads innocent when all the evidence points at that alone. Irrigates. He's very stupid and very arrogant. Yes, sir. He thinks the presidency is going to protect him. But sorry, it's not going to work. His master plan. He he exploited and used the presidency for his own selfish personal agenda. Yeah, you know, you're not supposed to have businesses when you're in the White House, he had all his businesses still running. He really, yeah, he's a charlatan. He's a he's just a he used and he used abuse of authority, of course. This political platform. Oh, by the way, which I just did you see it says we have streaming problems, please stand by. Did you see that at all? Yeah, it just popped up. But yeah, he abused his powers like nobody we know, like a drunken sailor would. I get this is seems like one of your streams is having problems. Not on my not on my you're fine. I'm talking about where we're streaming to, I don't know. Yeah, fuck that. Fuck it. Exactly. How is your how? How is your your internet provider? How is the plan you have? It's a good one. It's good. It's good. Yes, sir. So I don't know what the fuck's going on. So speaking of Republicans, old old Mitch McConnell is really he seems like he's going down for the count pretty soon with the falls and the freeze. And well, poor poor man. He has said that he they asked him a question about about the existence of extraterrestrials and UFOs or something. And he and he was about to say something and Secret Service approached him and some lady maybe give him a little cattle prod to the back of the neck or something. Something like that, like in other words, dummy up. He has no problem with that. That's his main goal is being a dummy. That man when he's gone, he'll be remembered for one thing, all legislation. Nothing else. I think and looking like a turtle. Yes, and marrying into wealth and going with the minority and then talking about stopping minorities from coming into the country. He's a real, real fashion Hick. Well, Republicans are known to be hypocrites. Oh, yes. They lie and they're also hypocrites. Like they'll they'll throw stones in the glass house. They'll like marry, they'll marry a minority. But then put down. Yeah. But but but if you're not married to them, don't don't don't you dare cross the border. Yeah, crazy stuff. You know, like I think Jeb, Jeb Bush was married to a Spanish woman. One point before his family stepped in and stopped it. I don't even know if they ever stopped it, but hold on, please. Hello, Ronald J. Tario of Southeastern Louisiana. Greetings and salutations. Hello, Mr. Nick and Mr. James. I don't know. Quick question, James, did you fill out that class action lawsuit against Metta? Not not yet, but I haven't saved. It's I didn't spread it around to everybody I know because, you know, there are a lot. There are a lot of people out there that are Mark Zuckerberg fans and you know, I don't want them to say, ah, that's OK. I don't want I don't want to make waves. But, you know, they what's been happening to me and me. And I said, Nick, Nick and Joe. Mr. Clean is that the the scale lately, I don't know if I told Ronald, lately, the scammers have been using names and phone numbers of people that I know personally to try to get me to pick up the phone. And then it immediately switches my phone immediately, recognizes it as being either fraud or or whatever, telemarketer or scam or whatever. And then it said in small letters coming from Facebook. So I'm thinking, is this guy is this guy in cahoots with with these scammers? Oh, yeah. I mean, I mean, that's the newest thing now. They're using names and numbers of people you already know. And of course, we're too slick. So we'll just pick up the phone. What happened to me once where James called me and it was somebody else. It was so creepy. And then some girl I called recently showed me on her phone. Instead of my own name, it was my Facebook name that came through the phone. So it's definitely a hijacking of our our privacy. And I filled out that form yesterday. We have one month to file it. So yeah, yeah, it has to do with monetary compensation for all the data that he sold. Little little hawk nose, stole and sold, sold, sold and sold. So that that's that I was reading some time of change articles and what's happening very sad. What's happening is coral reefs are are are becoming bleached from the from the sun. Oh, God, where the the reefs that are are in more shallow waters like five feet. Yeah, not not the deep reefs, not yet. So what's happening is they're dying off because they're as they bleach from the sun, they release the algae. That is their primary food source. Oh, God. And then they start. And we all know that the coral reef is similar to the rainforest. It's a whole ecosystem where so many marine creatures rely on just like the rainforest. We rely on it. Yeah. Yeah, well, it's they caught the lungs of the planet Earth. Hold on. Cities will go on there. Well, that's that's when the coastal cities, the coastal civil, what's going to happen when, you know, I mean, Miami Beach is like over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I mean, I mean, you're you're you're experiencing a Bart Robinson. How are you, sir? Good afternoon to you. What are you going to what do you do when you're experiencing a heat wave? And then you jump in the ocean to try to cool off or you or you jump into a in ground pool or a lake and it's a bathtub. Yeah, because, you know, what do you call a jacuzzi, a hot tub? Yes, they say it's between 100 and 102 degrees Fahrenheit. Um, it's sad. It's a sad, sad thing. That's what happened to me in Cabo San Lucas. You know, they it was so hot that time that when I jumped into the in-ground pool, it was a bathtub in a minute. And then you get a moment. I'd like to say something. Yeah, yeah. No, no. Now I'm turning the floor over to Ronald J. I'd like to interrupt. Oh, go ahead. No worries. I'm going to apologize for last Sunday mocking Japanese dialect. I don't remember. It wasn't very nice. You know, it was kind of mean spirited. I mean, honestly, if somebody mocks Cajun dialect, I don't get upset. It's funny to me. But you know, some people are sensitive and I should, you know, when we were talking about the buyouts, Sapporo buying out Anchor and I was. Oh, the beer that was in the world. Anchor steam. Yeah, Anchor beer. Yeah, I was saying, oh, we put money on bad horse stuff like that. You know, I was like, that's not very nice. You know, well, I always say like, like, like Spanish people, when they say crab, they say crack, they say crack. And Chinese people say crack, C-R-A-P. Italians mispronounce everything. Yeah, I mean, idioms are funny, you know, but it could become hateful in a way, you know, like, but I like Japanese people. Don't get me wrong. I don't really dislike anybody, actually. I like all of them. My grandfather, they used to say I used to work in the factory. Social security. I said a social security. He used to say social security. Social security. My father says Massachusetts, you know, Massachusetts. My grandmother couldn't speak. She used to call it Massachusetts. Massachusetts, Massachusetts, you know, but. Or supposedly, and sort of supposedly, supposedly. Yeah, supposedly, yeah. And so what about active question? I want to ask you a young lady was my waitress. And she said acts last night, many times. She was very pretty and I did not say anything to her. Right. You want to say what are you chopping wood or? What is she related to Lizzie Borton? She was an ax. She was attractive. So I let her say acts all she wanted. The waitress. You should have axed her out. I was I was I had to ax to grind with her. You know, you had an ask to grind with her. Oh, you're you're going Western hat way to go there. The man with no name. How does that man is the man with a horse with no name? That's that's America. That's all different than the Clint Eastwood. Yeah, all you need now is a shawl and of the poncho. Yeah, I guess a lot of my political views would be different from you two guys, but I never get angry talking about politics. But a lot of people get it, you know, really angry. Yeah, well, I mean, I mean, your family. So you're a Democrat family, Ronald, right? You're you grew up in a Democrat family, right? You're your parents, parents, grandparents or they mix. That was during a transition time in the 1970s. When all the Louisiana Democrats started transitioning because of Nixon's Southern strategy, they slowly transitioned over to Republican. Well, I remember the Dixie. I remember the Dixie Crats and George Wallace. Yeah, I remember hearing a little bit about him. Yeah, he was he kept racism alive, right? George Wallace. Brother Wallace. Yeah, I believe he kept racism alive as much as he could. He was pro segregation. Well, yes or no, but he. He was just an opportunist, you know, like a lot of people call what he did a lot of what he did was like stunts, like the George Wallace show. He was an opportunist, you know, like, oh, well, I can get a lot of votes being a big you know, support segregation. And then when you see that's not going anywhere. Oh, yeah, I don't like segregation. I'm against all that, you know, like a lot of these people, they just. Whatever, Al Sharpton would always show up for every every injustice that involves a black person. But if it was too, if it was a white person being targeted, he would never. That's a perfect example. Al Sharpton made made a big career is making a big career off of, you know, explanation and misrepresent. Yeah, he's an explorer, a demagogue and George. I remember the Tawanna Brawley's case where she was she lied about the whole thing. So, yeah. So, yeah, growing up, I. There was some interesting things going on. And my family had interesting discussions we could call them about things like we would go visit battlefields. That was very interesting. You know, we would like battle or Shiloh. Wow, what sort of the battle? Oh, Vicksburg, you know, Vicksburg, very interesting. You know, it would be fascinating when you visit the battlefield. It's a bring one of those metal detector things. There is nothing to find because people have scoured those battlefields with metal detectors as and anything out there. Fifty years they went through and got every bullet. You know, you can find every. Was there a battle of New Orleans? I thought I heard of something that in history, the Battle of New Orleans. You know, in 1815. There was. That was against Great Britain. And then there was a battle of New Orleans in 1862. The United States versus the Confederate States. But the battle was actually south in New Orleans. There were two ports. There were ports on either side of the river. Well, you know, many miles downriver to protect. From the Union and the Confederate. Yeah, and the ports didn't work. No, you know, I like the. I like the pirate. I like the pirate shown the seat, shown the seat. Apparently he was. You you froze, Mick. Oh, Mick froze. He got he was saying we froze, but I think he froze. No, he froze. Somebody had an article. Gentlemen, I don't know if you see what I see, but I see. You're frozen on your life. Now, we're not even come back. I'm not sure. I think it's if you if you want to leave and come back, I might fix it, but we're fine. His phone connection is probably failing. We're fine. I mean, or you want to wait for it to kick in. And yeah, that's the best thing. The bad thing about the good thing about using cell phones for this is it's convenient. The bad thing is they're not always reliable. No, no, I know. Like last night when I went live with Paul Anthony Mantia, he he gets the highest quality video and audio by using his iPad. Beauty. It's an Apple product, but there's absolutely no issues with with the compatibility or live stream. And it really is like very high definition and we have no issues. So you would tell me Jean Lafitte might have been Jewish. One time is disputed, you know, like he claimed he was or something. But he may have been, you know, Lafitte, but. But whatever his background was, he was. He was an interesting guy. Yeah, he was an interesting guy. Now, now remember those two very crude. Sort of submarines that were. Is it the monitor and the Merrimack during the Civil War? Yeah, they were not submarines. They were armored ironclad ironclad ships. Yeah, they were low. Yeah, they were low. But they were the first ironclad ships and they had a battle with each other. The monitor and the Merrimack. And what was their their choice of weapon? Obviously, what it was in torpedoes, it was bad cannonballs. But all the cannonballs did was bounce off of each other's ship. They just had a firefight and the cannonballs are bouncing off at each other's. They didn't do any damage. But the Merrimack's steering equipment broke. So it couldn't support. So it just kind of I'm surprised they were able to stay afloat being that they were made of iron. Yeah, well, they were clad in iron. They were made of wood that they had covered iron and iron coated. Yeah, so then the Merrimack went up the river just thinking all kind of union ships. And then but the steering equipment was sort of basic, you know, and then it was easily it failed and then the monitor was a little better built in that. But it didn't do much. It was sort of like we call it a gimmick at the time. But it revolutionized naval warfare. After that battle, every major country got rid of wooden ships overnight. You know, it's like who who who used who dropped bombs from a derogable? Was that World War One Germany? That was Germany. Those, you know, that cool song by Crosby Susan Ash, Wooden Boats. It's about written by Joni Mitchell, I think it's not about war. Yeah, wooden ships. Yeah, it's about I think the the Mayflower and stuff. But it's just kind of similar to what you're talking about. No, it is about war. Oh, it is. I thought that song was co-written by Jefferson Airplane and Crosby Stillsmash and they thought it was about the pilgrims. I'm sorry. What was it about, Jay? So they they those two bands used to hang out together a lot. So they they co-wrote the song and instead of fighting over it, they said, well, look, we'll both release it on both of our albums at the same time. So there was yes, Nash Wooden Ship and Jefferson Airplane Wooden Ships. But it was about after a nuclear war where a man and a woman meet up or OK, and they're talking about how they survived after the war, you know. And they're saving humanity and repopulating something like that. Yeah, like I could tell from your uniform, you're from the other side. And that's cool. I've been eating these purple berries for 30 days. Yeah, I remember that. So it's about wooden ships. It's kind of weird, you know, song, but yeah, I'm familiar with it. I actually have the album with the song on. It's a great song. This radioactive mutations over by Chernobyl, like cats and dogs live there and they don't get sick at all. Just walk all around them. You know, there's a song about saving humanity by Black Sabbath called Into the Void about leaving the earth and trying to survive somewhere else. Yeah, the earth is in big trouble. I have that album, too. Into the void. Yeah, Master's Reality. Oh, what a great album. The earth is in so much trouble. It's frightening with the global warming. Well, yeah, I get a message of streaming issues again. I don't know. No, you're you're you're a pixel. You're you're what? But I hear you. Yeah, the main thing is my dear. Oh, oh, yeah. As soon as I said, I hear you. His video. Soon as you said, I hear you. Soon as you said, I hear you. It was like Steve Austin and a six million dollar man. She's breaking up. We can rebuild him. And he used to run me of the cyborg. You know, they're they're not far away from real cyborgs, you know. How about now? Can you guys hear me now? You're fine. Thank you. Um, yeah, I am very concerned about the world today. It's just it's a wicked place now. You know what I noticed that any time I see videos or photos of Lake Michigan near Chicago, it looks like it's a beautiful shade of blue. It is. It's pretty. It almost looks like like you're in a Caribbean. No, but I've been there and it's brown. It's brown for the place. Yeah, it reflects the sky. So it looks blue, but it's more brown, you know, from river water. Oh, excuse me, flowing in there. But they have the they reverse the flow of the river water. It doesn't flow into Lake Michigan. The Army Corps of Engineers changed the routing of the river. So it doesn't float in anymore. Well, that's only in Chicago, though. Yes, there's other rivers that flow into Lake. Yeah, you mean like in in Wisconsin and stuff? Yeah, because Lake Michigan touches a few states. Yeah, the Miss the Mississippi goes to Lake Superior. Doesn't it doesn't it end at Lake Superior? No, it ends at Lake. It starts at Lake Atasca in Minnesota and it ends at the Gulf. Oh, Lake Atasca is where it connects to Lake Atasca is just a lake in it. And it flows into a little stream Delta, which is the Mississippi River. And then other streams flow into it. And then pretty soon it's big, you know. But I jumped across now walked across the Mississippi River on a little plank where it starts, it's clear as a bell, where it starts clear. Now, it gets it gets up. Does it get more narrow or just more or shallower? It gets wider every it's wider and wider and deeper and deeper by the time you get to where I live. It's a mile wide and it's about 90 feet deep. Wow. Mississippi is is is the border of separating Illinois from Missouri, right? Yeah, yeah. Mississippi runs through Illinois near the Quad Cities near Galena, Illinois. The Mississippi River has catfish in it. And Cape Girardeau where Rush Limbaugh was from. That's on the Mississippi River. Cape Girardeau is there and and also, of course, each St. Louis and St. Louis. I know all about the Mississippi River, James and Nick. I wrote a book Life on the Mississippi. Oh, nice. I'm sorry, that was Mark Twain. I was taking credit for it. Why don't they bring back riverboat gambling on modern versions of a flat bottom? River Bowl. Don't they have that New Orleans? Don't they still have riverboats with the wheel? Yeah, I have those. But they got casinos, so why would they go out? I got the casinos on there. Well, they casinos, big, huge casinos. I was offered a like a cruise on a boat from New Orleans to Austin, Texas. What? What? When you're Austin or something. Yeah, you wouldn't get some tech. You could not do that. No, I wouldn't connect. Well, what about you? Could you get from New Orleans to part of Texas though, right? You could go to New Orleans from New Orleans to the Texas Oklahoma border if you went on the Red River. Yeah, but you could take a riverboat. You could take maybe a little paddleboat. OK, what is the name of the river by San Antonio? The River, Antonio River. OK, nice. And then let's see, the Ohio River separates Kentucky from Ohio. Ohio, yeah. That's where I went to the Mississippi night. You could if you had a small enough boat and a lot of patients, you could go from where I live right by New Orleans. Now, they have the River Roads. You can actually drive, but if you wanted to be in the water, you could go up the Mississippi River and then go east on the Ohio River all the way to Pittsburgh. Wow. Pittsburgh and New Orleans are connected by the river. You can go into New York State. New York State is connected to Chicago. The Chicago River, like you said, they reversed the flow. Blame the Corps of Engineers for messing up the environment because they weren't one of the biggest culprits. But anyway, yeah, that's your government at work. Anyway, they you could go to Chicago on the Mississippi River. It connects to Minneapolis, St. Paul. Connects to St. Louis, of course, as we know. Well, before the railroad, that was the that was the way that was the transportation between city, even in like China, you know, the Yellow River to Yangtze River. Didn't didn't Lewis and Clark or some of the first people describe discovered those routes in early America, Lewis and Clark? Well, they walked from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Yeah, they walked. Holy, that's a long walk. Yeah, yeah, but their job was to survey the area because the United States had just bought Louisiana. And so Thomas Thomas Jefferson said, your job is to walk from the Mississippi River all the way to the Pacific and come back and tell me what you see because we don't know what's there. They didn't get scalped. No, in fact, they hired an Indian woman named Sakha Juhiya. And she guided them all the way out there. And so the Indians say she was a trader, you know, but oh. Oh, well, she guided them and they had all kind of adventures. They never got killed, but they had all kind of crazy adventures. And yeah, all kind of babies being born looked a lot like those two guys. And yeah, when they put a fracture, Brutus, when they were they did they have a perfect face for radio? They guess the Indian girls like them. I don't know, but I know there's a lot of, but you know, one of those guys was mental, he came back after and he killed himself. Lewis and Clark, one of them. I think really committed suicide, right? Wasn't it him over mental anguish and illness? Just I think it was something like he had made some bad investments or whatever. But you kill yourself. Oh, yeah, yeah, you did it in. But yeah, you can go all over the whole middle of the United States, connects to New Orleans from the Miss Denver, Colorado, connects to New Orleans by water, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Montana, you can go all the way from Montana, Billings, Montana to New Orleans on on water. And that's assuming you could tolerate floating that far. You know, is there a river? Is there a river connecting Kansas City, Missouri to the Mississippi? Yeah, the Missouri River. Oh, and take that to New Orleans. Some old guy did that once some old man. He went from his goal was to go from like Minneapolis to New Orleans in this little paddle boat. Wow. You know, you're the handle. Well, you don't need that. You just need something to guide you because the current's going to take you. The current's going to take you. It's like strong currents like kill you, kill you. But he wouldn't work when you made it. He made it and he was like they had him on TV. Like, oh, yeah, it was really interesting. Except for all those bad rainstorms. Was that like the guy that rode the riding more across the country? Remember him? Something like that. But yeah, so we have the Great River Road. We have the Great River Road right by my house here. And you can go from Louisiana all the way to all the way to where the river starts on the Great River Road, Spina Kiway. There's a there's a street in Chicago called one. The suburbs in Chicago called River Road. I was just driving on it. What about Route 66? I remember that was a big deal before I was born. I drove on most what year were you born? Sixty six. It ended at the Santa Monica Pier. Santa Monica at Pacific Coast Highway. That's where it ends. That's where I heard it still open, but not traveled as much that they created other routes for people to go. If you want to drive from Chicago to Santa Monica, California and see a bunch of closed down, good, built businesses and ruins, sort of like a ghost ghost town. Sixty six. Sixty six, because you'll see a lot of that's sad. So you won't get your kicks anymore on Route 66. Well, you get your kicks if you like seeing a bunch of closed down stores and stuff, because once they built the interstate, it was like. Yeah, I mean, tumbleweed, you may see. I mean, they wrote songs about it. They wrote songs about Route 60. You'll get your kicks on Route 66. If there is still a Route 66 now, to be fair, they built the interstate right next to it in Illinois. So that was the end of it. It's just a side road now, like a service road, you know, so Route 66 is like is like Route one is on the East Coast. Right. But Route one was far enough away from the interstate that continued to survive. But Route 66 built the interstate like right next to it. Yeah, they replaced it big time for when I heard. I mean, if you're not near an exit, if you're not near an interstate exit, you're just stuck and ain't nobody going to get off and go back track to go and see your store that sells natural honey or something like that. Yeah. In natural honey. Now, when you get to Missouri, there's a Missouri State Highway 66, which is used to be United States Highway 66, and it runs all the way across Oklahoma, Oklahoma Highway 66. And it's still pretty busy. And the reason for that is in Oklahoma, they charge a toll to ride on the interstate highway and a lot of people in Oklahoma say, oh, no, I'm not paying a toll to ride on the highway, so they take 66. So it's yeah, we got tolls here. Galar in Illinois, Indiana, too. Oh, yeah. And and there's still a California Highway and there's still an Arizona and California Highway 66, which is the old road. So those are pretty. Well, yeah, pretty empty, but except in California, where 66 is like a business boulevard by L.A., where it's full of. Oh, look, McDonald's. There is the. The motor vehicles office. I got to go get you know what I mean? It's yeah, they give road tests in the desert or something. But I'll tell you what, James and Nick, when you get out on Route 66 in the desert in Arizona, you're alone. I mean, it is. Wow. Dessalant and barren. Oh, yeah, it's crazy. I've never been in an environment like that in my life that it was so. Yeah, but it's pristine and quiet. Well, you got to you got to drive to Gary, Indiana. You'll see some closed and burnt out buildings galore when the steel industry left Gary and a little bit of that. You know, yes, it is. That's where the Jackson family is from. Yeah, Jackson's family. You know, you know, when Gary and you. Yeah, all of them, including that's near me. I drive past Gary sometimes when I'm heading to Michigan or something. And yeah, it's a butthole. When the Ohio River arrives at Pittsburgh, it connects with the Allegheny and the Managa Gila. And that's why they call the Three Rivers Stadium makes a V got two leading into one. It makes a V in the whole city of Pittsburgh is inside that V. Wow. And you can walk around that park. You can there's a little park and you can go there and see where the two rivers come together and make the Ohio. And it's like a there's like there's like a fountain at the triangle. Yeah, yeah, like a little park. Yeah, we went to that park. Yeah, and that's the Three Rivers and that's why they named it Three River Stadium. Yeah, I don't know what they have now. But well, they got the new stadium right next to where it used to be. Oh, it's it's in the same area. The same thing of Mick told me that the new Camiskey Park is in the same neighborhood. You got a call. I got a call. Yes. I have a call. What happened? Oh, he has a call. That's the private private. You got to answer it all again. Yeah, Camiskey Park was right across the street from where the new White Sox Stadium is and Yankee Stadium is across the street from the Owing Institute. Right. And they're both in shitty neighborhoods. Not true exactly. The neighborhood near the White Sox ballpark is pretty nice. I've walked through there many times, at least five or six times. Now, when you get on the east side of the interstate, yeah, it's a good place to go get killed. That's because that's the south side, the infamous south side of Chicago, right? It's like good times, but without the good times. Yeah, good times. And Leroy Brown and what's his name? Mr. T is from there. I want to go on on the east side that I 94. Now, but to be fair, if you go right immediately north of the White Sox Stadium, where I've been many times with other people, too, they can back me up on this. It is a crow. It is an Italian neighborhood. There are, yes, there are Italian restaurants, right? It's a park right north of the White Sox Stadium. It's a park where they have a swimming pool, you know, like inside some cool and so poor little Italy in Chicago is like. Directly north of that park is Italy, little Italy. And they have Italian restaurants. There's a Catholic Church as Italian Catholic Church. And they have people have Italian flags in front of their house. And I know there's a substantial Italian community in in Chicago and as well as a lot of Irish people, too. Now, if you keep walking north of that neighborhood, now there is a Croatian neighborhood. Right. And there's more Polish people in Chicago than there is in like Warsaw. So when you go to Chicago, they got the Italian neighborhood, then there's the Croatian neighborhood with a Croatian Catholic Church right north of the Italian and they're all got the Croatian flags in front of their houses. And and if you go right north of there. The next neighborhood is Chinatown. Chinatown and and it's very nice, very interesting, beautiful Chinese restaurants and Chinese grocery stores and all the live seafood. And I think there's a Japanese a Japanese community in Chicago also. And if you go east of I, if the interstate, then it's Little Africa, whatever you want to call it. Well, I mean, you know, yeah, I know. Well, like in Brooklyn, the West Indies neighborhood is well, Jamaica, Queens is not a nice area. But yeah, no, the Brooklyn that was at Crown Heights and Flushing. Oh, yeah, Jamaica's in Queens. Yeah, yeah, Crown Heights and Flushing, Brooklyn are predominantly West Indies. You know, they have the West Indies Parade and what and they got the big Chinese neighborhood in Flushing, New York. Yeah, that's China, Flushing, New York. I think that's the biggest one of the biggest Chinatowns in the country. That's the good Chinatown here. That's the good Chinatown. Don't go to the Manhattan Chinatown. No, Montmarch Street and Canal Street. No, no, no, no, that's that's the good Chinatown. Now, now we were talking. He was talking about Mick, he was talking about how by by the old, the new Comiskey Park. One side of one side of it's nice. And the other side, oh, I'm actually my voice going back, I have to leave it back. My voice here, my damn iPhone. Yeah, up. He's got some. Yeah, yes. He's having technical issues today, that's a shame. Yeah, some, some, some Sundays he doesn't and others he has to. He has to go back and forth. It's a I had the same problem when I had an iPhone and if I would go on Eric's show, it was horrible. It was worse than what Mick is going through. It's it's that what was happening is the iPhone was forcing Safari as a browser. Any time I was taken part in a live stream. And I I hated Safari, so I always try to use Google Chrome. You know, or Mozilla is a good browser, too. I like that Safari. No luck with yes, Safari is horrible. Yeah, it's it's trying to force you to use the part. Yeah, it's just not compatible with live stream. Well, Apple wants you to buy all of their software. Remember my bad camera problem? Here's what I noticed about that bad camera problem. It got extremely bad after they went to enter my Windows 11. Yeah, I think what happened was they made it to where you had to get a Windows 11 computer or none of your stuff was going to work. Really, that's when my system crashed when they went to Windows 11. And they were like, well, you could still use Windows 10. But I have what's funny is they keep telling me my computer hardware or my computer, my desktop, is not compatible to download on Windows 11. But I have a custom built jacked up, jacked up to the Max desktop. So how could with all the RAM memory I have and everything in the CPU? How does it matter how they do it? And I just had to pay to eight hundred dollars. I was at the Windows cult. I was part of that. They would say your software expired. You have to re-license it and bullshit like that. I hated it. That's why my brother in law is using a Linux distro called Mint and he's got every every software that's just as good as the ones you have to pay for is free, nice free. And you can use Google Chrome as your browser. And everything works impeccably like all the software performs at a high level. Yeah, like it sounds really good. Like the video editing one is called OpenShot. You drag and drop the, you know, and it's like really it's really great. The only thing is Messenger is not can yet compatible Linux. OK, Facebook, you know, of course, Facebook Messenger. And I don't think WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook is. Now you wanted to ask Nick about the Kamiski area. Oh, yeah, like one side of the highway by Kamiski Park is a nice neighborhood and he told me the Italian neighborhood is north of that. And then there's a Croatian neighborhood north of the Italian neighborhood. And then China town. But he says when you go on the other side of the highway by Kamiski Park, it's it's the bad neighborhood. Oh, yeah, very much so. So it's separated by a highway. Yes, you had to be real careful around Kamiski. Just go in the stadium and get to your car and get the flock out of there. I think it's called Dan Ryan Expressway. Yes, Dan Ryan. Why don't they just send like if I was if I was the governor, I would send the National Guard and just and just wipe out that whole part of Chicago. I would use nerve gas and come on right now. What you're what you're talking about is genocide. So take it easy. OK, we know what they actually let that happen. They let them kill each other, unfortunately. That's what goes on there. I don't want them to mug nice people. Well, there's a lot of black on black crime on the West side. And it's very unfortunate that the country seems not to care about it. What about Iraq? They call it X, X, no, they don't care about it. You know, it's a matter, but maybe black people haven't heard that. Yeah, what about higher in that X, it's like special forces and making like Charles Bronson's out of them, like vigilante. Well, they have they have what was the the guardian angels, which are volunteers that they don't have any weapons. Oh, I'm sorry. Take it easy there, Mr. Hungry for Power. Yeah, the guardian angels try to protect people and they they do what they can. In New York City. In Chicago, they have guardian angels there, too. Yeah, Chicago, they have the guardian angels. Well, Lisa Slewa is from Chicago. When Curtis Slewa was married to Lisa, she she's from Chicago. And her name is Evers. Now she's a news broadcaster in New York. Oh, he died. She went back for she went back to her maiden name. No, she's no, he's he's still he's alive and kicking very strong. They didn't stay together, OK. No, no, they they divorce because he's right wing and she's progressive. Hey, Ronnie, yes. They're bucking heads. No, I mean, I'm right wing, you could say, but not in the neoconservative way of looking at it. You know what I mean? Like, no, I don't like neoliberals or I don't like extremists. I don't like extremists. It's just what I said. What I said, because I I want to protect, protect the innocent. I mean, I I usually speak very frankly. Of course, you got to watch what you say on imminent. But yeah, the names are changed. What was that? Dragna, the names were changed to protect these. I mean, you know, I remember three or four years ago, three years ago, we were being preached to about Black Lives Matter. Like, I didn't know that before. You know, I didn't know. Oh, I always say it like this. Really? I didn't know that. All lives, all lives matter. I thought Black Lives Matter. Oh, I'm glad you told me that. It's good to hear. You know, that kind of response I had because it's so ridiculous. All lives and I said, well, if that's true, which, of course, we know it's true. I said, well, maybe you should tell it to Black people because they don't seem to get the message since almost 100 percent of the murders of Black people are perpetuated by who? Clansmen, I don't think so. Who is killing most of the Black people in America? Other Black people. Now. Well, you know, they, they, the ghetto, the ghetto does not want to defund the police in any way, shape or form. No. They need the police. White liberals who don't live in the ghetto wanted to fund the police. So I'll hear it. Yeah, Ronnie's right. They're neo feminists. They have a power agenda. They hate men and they're responsible for changing dating and relationships of and the family unit. Are they are neo feminist lesbians if they hate men? What do you have? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I imagine if they don't need a man around, they got to do something together. You remember Gloria Steinem? Yes. Ready for Dan. Abzog, none of whom were Presbyterian, by the way, if you give him a birth. And one was uglier than the other. They, they had, there were two baggers. You needed a paper bag for your head and their head in case their paper bag. I thought a two bagger was one for them and one for you to throw up in. Yeah, you know, that stopped in 1957 with the feminine mistake. And they were revolutionaries and they came from a communist background and they knew what they were doing and it wasn't about women's rights. It was about what you're talking about, changing the game board. Wow. Yeah, yeah, they were their lobby. Who was the who's the mother of that that guy on CNN with the white hair? Was it Gloria Steinman or Steinem? Here's what I've been. You know, she had a little poker straight here. Yeah, she's famous, you know, the gay dude on CNN with white hair. I can't remember his name. Isn't his mother. She was some socialite. Gloria Vanderbilt, maybe. Somebody famous and yeah. Yes, yes, but he's from New Orleans. Oh, he was born there. Yeah. He doesn't have much of an accent, though. Does he hide it? He might have not been raised it, but he was. And just like Brian Gumbel was from New Orleans. Wow. Him and his brother have a real the corner market on wigs. Brian and what's what's his other? Greg and Brian, I like them both, though. They're very good, you know, at their jobs. I like them. So football is around the corner. Yeah, Anderson Cooper. Thanks, Ronnie Simpson. Yeah, I, you know, I don't I'm not I don't just like him. I just don't care about him as I don't look to him for news or anything. I just know his mother was someone famous. Um, he has a very dry personality. Oh, sorry, he's from New York. See, I think it's from New Orleans. Yeah, he's not he's not, you know, I have any charisma knew something he's from new something. Yeah. So football seasons coming up. Do you watch football at all? Ronald J. Yes, I go to games every weekend. Meaning like local or professional? Joe Biden hates men. So do you like you go to see I used to go to Saints games, but I haven't been to a Saints game since 2018. I got tired of going to NFL games. It was a big hassle. But yeah, it is. I don't really enjoy him. I watch I rather watch him on television. Now, college football, I go to college games a lot. Yeah, that's cool. Is that any colleges you worked at or? Well, yeah, a little bit. But I usually go see Tulane University because my family went to school there. Most a lot of my family. And then I go to Louisiana State University, LSU games. Yeah. But not as much because they're a hassle, too, because there's a lot of traffic and all. And then I go to Southeastern Louisiana University games. So I go to a lot of games in New Orleans at Tulane because I have friends that have connections there and we tend to get free tickets. I'm going to mention that on the air. But do you live in New Orleans proper or in the suburbs near New Orleans or? Yeah, I'm about 25 miles west in New Orleans. That's cool. I live in the suburbs of Chicago. So yeah, about the same. I'm 28 miles from my house to Tulane Stadium football stadium, 28 miles. Well, the Chicago Bears are going to be moving out near my area eventually. They bought the Allian Heights racetrack and they're working and negotiating. And that's close to me, very close on the Northwest side. Yeah, it's it's it's pretty exciting news. Traffic, of course, will be totally messed up. They don't like the soldier field, huh? Well, that's not theirs. They don't own soldier field. Soldier field doesn't hold enough people. The Bears are going to have to be sold once Virginia McCaskey does pass away. She's like ninety four. And to get the highest value, they need to have a stadium. They're the only team that doesn't own their own stadium. And a soldier field, they remodeled it, but it's just not really an NFL stadium. No, there's no, the Saints don't own their stadium. They don't. The city owns it, you mean? The state of Louisiana owns a Superdome. Gotcha, gotcha. Well, they do have some money into it, I believe, don't they? Aren't the Saints part owner at all or anything? No, they just put a lot of no, they just put money into it to fix it up. Make it nice. It's fancy. You know, it's an NFL is built to be an NFL stadium. Yeah, soldier field was sort of like an Olympic stadium, and then you just kind of converted it into an NFL. Yeah, it was built for the, you know, the the World's Fair. There was supposed to be, you know, a crowning achievement then. And it's pretty damn old. Yeah, it's real old. Yeah, there are a few teams that don't own their own stadium. But most do these days. Yeah, that's what it'll it'll raise the value of the Bears. And then when they go to sell them, they'll make the most money. That's really what it's about. Because Virginia McCaskey is not going to live forever. And when she passes away, there is not one single family member that can control it. So not many of them want to stay. They want the money. They don't want to own the team. So that will overrule anyone that wants to own it and whoever wants. There's so many of them there. There's not one that can do anything. So it'll be sold to somebody that will make it a good, a good team again. Hopefully we're praying and hoping. Yeah, Ronnie's right. I mean, these teams control the stadiums because they have threatened the city to move. So that's how they got control. They'll just say, well, guess we'll have to move to another city. Oh, no, no, no. That's what happened to the Baltimore Colts. They they moved to overnight to Indianapolis. They didn't like telling anyone. It was kind of secretive, too. Yeah, they just snuck out. Yeah, they were getting kind of hassled in that city. And they were like, well, we need a new stadium. And then Indianapolis had a brand new dome and they were like, well, you can come here and they were like, OK. And like you said, they snuck out at two in the morning so they wouldn't get spot on Don Shula was the old coach. Johnny Unitis was Albus Smith. Johnny Unitis was quarterback. I think he was from Navy. No, Roger Storbach was from Navy. Yeah, Roger Storbach was from Navy. Johnny Unitis. Well, speaking of the Colts, you know, the Ravens moved from Cleveland. And you know, Ray Lewis, the son, Odeed and died. Yeah, recently Ray Lewis, the third. Yeah. So did one of I think Robert Tenere's grandson, Odeed and died. It's all this fentanyl fentanyl is being put into all illicit drugs. I don't know why people want to take drugs. I mean, you know, what is what's wrong? People, why do you want to take drugs? It's insanity. Life, life, life is a struggle in short enough as it is. Well, the problem is these these recreational drugs were not cut with fentanyl in the past and now they are and they're all quite deadly. Fentanyl should be outlawed. Many celebrities have died from fentanyl. Prince Tom Petty. I'm pretty sure it's outlawed, but it doesn't mean anything. That doesn't mean anything. Well, it could still be prescribed by doctors. Every every every recreational drug has a medical use. It's just that people misuse it. That's why it's called drug abuse. Exactly. Yeah. Well, it's turning into drug related death, unfortunately. I mean, I mean, if if you. It's yours. Listen, if somebody if somebody. Enjoys fine wine and craft beer and high high shot top shop liquor. OK, that's what you're supposed to do. You enjoy the flavor, the aroma. But if you turn that into alcoholism and then you drink until you have sclerosis of the liver and then you die from that. Well, that that's you. Right. That's your your choice as an adult. I mean, that is a drug drug abuse as well, because alcohol is a drug. Same thing with smoking. Yes. You know, the thing about it, if you buy a beer at the grocery store, pretty much no chance that it's going to be laced with fentanyl. Exactly. Luckily, people say, I'm going by some pot, you know, but it's a big chance it could have that stuff in it. Oh, no, not that bad. Why do you need to buy this marijuana? I want to get high. Well, man, why don't you go get a hobby? Why don't you go get a hobby? Why is something to do? Well, weeds legal here in Illinois, they don't put fentanyl. We they put it in in cocaine and heroin and other illicit drugs. You put it in. They do put it in marijuana in Louisiana and others. Yeah, well, not from the dispensaries here. They don't allow it. So it's all safe. I get edibles from there and I'm fine. Luckily, dispensaries, you know, well, you know, well, it has to be reputable source. You can't get it from some dealer on your buying stuff on the street. You're buying stuff on the street. I mean, come on, man. What are you doing? Yeah, true, true. What are you going to do? Suit a guy. I'm going to go to court. But it is it is an extremely medicinal plant. I mean, it has helped many people. I'm not disputing that with health issues. But, you know, the problem is the fentanyl is undetected and people don't know what they're getting into, where in the past it was never there. So it's really a it's a very slippery slope for these poor souls that all died from it. Yeah, I've always said this for years that you name any drug, you don't have medical medical usage, heroin, cocaine, yeah, life, surgic acid, diethylamide, marijuana. I saw I saw a vintage PCP. I saw vintage photographs of over the counter cocaine and heroin. You know, even testosterone over the counter when when you didn't need a doctor. Now, we're talking about maybe 1940s, 1930s playing with fire. I mean, if you want to do drugs, go ahead, but you're playing with fire. That's it. Go ahead, play with fire. When you I mean, alcohol, like y'all were saying, that's playing with fire in a sense. Every every I know a lot of people have been burned in that fire. You know, every vice has its limits. That's for damn sure, including like even gambling and stuff like that. Ruin your life in different ways. Very serious consequence gambling. I have a friend that he he won. About a thousand dollars on a slot machine. I says, walk away. Don't don't don't play with play the money pocketed. Yeah, what did he do? You not only lost it all when I wasn't around. He was going to the ATM machine in the casino. It's an addiction. Always trying to get your money back. Empty and out his bank. Gambling is so comical to me because it's obviously a rigged game. It's rigged. So you want to play a game where I can look at your cars, but you can't look at mine. That's fair. So it's always in the house. It's favorite. Always. It's rigged. They're not there to make you have a good time. Yeah, all games in the casino are in the house. So you go there and you say, I'm going to make some money. No, you're not going to make money. Well, those those that do get caught, the card counters, they catch them and take all their winnings. Yeah. Yes. If you're there to make money, they're going to kick you out. It's there to take your money. I knew a card counter. He was a mathematics genius. He was a math professor at Rutgers University. And he knew how to count cards. Wow. And his name was Bobby Katz. You know, he was like a little Woody Allen looking guy. And he got greedy. I told him, do not stay in one casino that long. Did they arrest him? Have him arrested? And he got banned from like a few casinos. Like, you know, I says, well, that's your fault. Exactly. Dumb, dumb and dumber. He stays there until he wins 300 grand. And then they right away, they had they had their eye. They had their eye on him. They established he was a card counter. And they, you know, I mean, he was banned. Stupid. What's wrong with you, man? You know, you don't stay there that long. But they're addicted. It's a sickness. You know, you move on, you go to another casino. Well, you know, money is man's invention and we've we've ruined our lives with it. Well, anything as many things could be used for good or evil. Yeah, that's for darn sure. People will tell you people will tell you money is the root of all evil. But actually, if you read the Bible, it doesn't say money is the root of all evil. It says the love of the love. Yes, exactly. The love of money, the love of money is. Yeah, money is just a neutral object. You use it as exchange. It's the love of money. That's what I mean. If temptation is waved in front of your face, it's up to you to decide whether or not to bite the hook to take the bait. You know, you don't have to take the bait. Life is about choices. That's for sure. Don't talk to me like like Ronnie. Yes, I think Nancy Reagan said, just say no, it's true. Just say no. I did. I didn't get involved with drugs when I was in high school. I could have, but I thought to myself, well, A, I have no interest in it. Secondly, you could just look around and see people who are drug addicts. And I thought that doesn't seem like a very productive. Yeah, I mean, look at all the look at all the alcohol and beer review shows that are out there with all the miscellaneous people that we might not know or be friends with. They they go on and before you know it, they're all very drunk and they're not reviewing anything. No, unfortunately, you're right. I've seen a number of them progress from being good beer reviewers to stumbling alcoholics, you know. Yeah, and their their their voices are slurring. They're not reviewing anything in any any intelligent way. Right now, I can't I'm not going to stay on much longer. But if you look at alcoholism and drug abuse, or probably gambling addiction, I'm sure gambling addiction, these all have an underlying psychological basis. Usually people have become drug addicts, alcoholics, gambling addicts or whatever addiction you want to talk about. They usually have some kind of psychological problem to start with. They're not just happy, go lucky guy going down the street, living his life and say, you know, I think I'll become a stumbling drunk. You know, it doesn't work that way. It's there's underlying problems. Right. That's why some some alcoholics are nasty drunks and pick fights and some alcoholics are happy drunks. But they're still drunks. But they're still drunks. I know somebody that has to take a prescribed excuse me, not a prescribed birth. A prescribed medication to resist the urge to drink. Terrible, you know, it becomes well, alcohol is double edged double edged sword because not only does it have a psychological under body, it's physically addictive. So you can your body will start to want it physical like heroin, physical addiction, nicotine, nicotine. Some drugs don't have physical addiction like cocaine is not physically addictive. Like when you do when you do Dawn Busters, which I just want to promote is one of Ronald J. Tyrion's weekly shows. He gets up before the crack of dawn and he does a review. And let's say you have one very popular Scotch whiskey versus another. Now, you you drink a small amount to review the whiskeys. You don't keep on refilling, refilling, refilling throughout the show. Like a lot of these people are doing. No, I just pour about that much. You know, you mentioned that I catch a lot of heat for that show. You know, people are like, you need to go to a clown. I'm like, you know, that drug to stop drinking. That's what killed Keith Moon from the who he was taking it and overdose on it. Yeah, I don't know if it was the same exact drug. He took 32 pills. Yeah. Yeah, he died. I think that was suicide. You're supposed to take one pill a day and you take 32. Yeah, I don't think that's an accident. He was bipolar. He was really out there. And he took the drug to protect himself from alcoholism and died from it over the overdose on that drug. Yeah, it was sad. I don't see how you could accidentally take 32 pills when you're only supposed to take one when you're bipolar, not your pre, probably, you know, it doesn't like you and I just like I heard when alcohol is over a a means when they go to a meetings, I hear they drink pot after pot after pot of coffee and smoke cigarettes. I've been to a meeting when I was young, mandatory meetings are 20 years old. They're very addictive. They're very addictive. They're like real wound up like I've dealt with people who are alcoholics in my life and they're like real wound up like they're like this all the time. Like James, they're like this. Tense. So they're replacing one addiction. I usually drink a lot and now I'm not going to drink anymore. And I just want to apologize to everybody who I offended. And now I go to meetings and I'm doing. Oh, yeah, I'm doing a lot better. I'm sobriety sobriety sobriety. I say all day like for 12 hours. I tell you, I'm sober now, boy. Let me tell you, I feel a lot better now. And I'm thinking, you sure you feel better? Yeah. They drink, like you say, 25 cups of coffee and they smoke and one after the other. Well, I'm glad I'm off that alcohol. Alcohol is messing me up, boy. And when and when they brag too much about their sobriety and then over, they overdo it and all they talk about is. Day 30, they 90. Well, they do that for trying to get support from other ex-drunks. That's why they do it. The drive, you're nuts. You know, talking and then they go around like James and they preached everybody. Let me tell you, you need to stop drinking. Wait a minute. Hey, buddy, I didn't smash my truck twice. I didn't get fired for drinking. You didn't get DWI. You the guy that's got to go to the programs. Don't kind of hustle me because you drink a bottle of Crown Royal every day. Don't bring that on me. You know, you know, it becomes like that, like a like a mania almost. It's it's a mania. Like when you when you do when you do dorm busters and you and you take a long sip of a good, let's say it's a single more scotch. OK, because the blended has too much can have too much cheapo crap in it, right, blended? Well, no, not necessarily. That's not really true. But yeah, it could, but it doesn't necessarily take a long sip. You squirt, you smell it, the bouquet, your own money, take a long sip, you swish it around your mouth, you taste the difference between with Scotch A and Scotch B and that that's a hobby. That that's not alcoholist. Look at my just go and look at my video this morning from the Tequila Taste Challenge, you watched the video and tell me, does that look like somebody that's all drunk, you know? I think I posted it on everything is food. Oh, Jose Cuervo versus Tijuana. Yeah, today's today's dorm busters, I posted it. I got to get nice Facebook. I haven't checked Facebook since six o'clock this morning, but. You're not missing anything. Well, he has he has a group called Alcohol Legs that that, you know, and then he has still have the Rock and Roll music Rock and Roll Club. Yeah, yeah, he's got a couple of things going on. Cool. And then I post things and everything is food sometimes. Like if I see photo, nice photos from those restaurants. Oh, very enjoyable for. Yeah, Mick, Mick, Mick is is an administrator. He sees all your posts. And I never post a photo from a restaurant I haven't eaten at. So like the Great Wall, the Great Wall, we went to the Great Wall last weekend. So that's why I was posting photos. Great Wall of Birmingham, was it? Yeah, got a great wall of Birmingham. You you ate there a lot because you know, I just know I got a bunch of different photos from it and I thought I would show like a little series of photos so people could get the idea what the restaurant was like. Yeah, so every day I posted one photo each day. You know, some people want to post like 75 photos in one post. I don't do that kind of stuff. Now, I noticed something about good Chinese food. It's very aesthetically attractive to the eyeball. It's it's pretty. Yeah, a lot of colors in there. Colors, colors like red, green, brown. It's a very color coordinated food. Excellent. I know it's sounds like it looks delicious. It does look delicious and often it is delicious. Get it? It sounds like it looks. Those charbrod, charbrod oysters that I posted yesterday. I've been to Felix's. Felix's is a really good oyster house. I mean, it's cool. That's cool, man. Oysters, Rockefeller. Yeah, I love those. I love oysters, Rockefeller. This is my favorite way to eat oysters. Ronald posted a very, a very inviting photo of a stack of huge onion rings. Oh, yummy. Like a pyramid. I love onion rings. I've had a week this for onion rings. I take onion rings over fries. It was like the leaning tower of onion rings and there were big and hope. Hopefully, you guys are making me hungry. Oily. Now, and then soft shell crab photo was really nice. That soft shell crab was so good. So good. And onion rings at UO College and they're famous for their onion rings. Of course, you're going to pay a fortune. You know, you're going to pay a fortune. Onion ring. Good to say it like, what's his face? I'm the Cajun cook. Onion ring. Oh, before I get off there, I'll tell you about Justin Wilson. I met him once and I ate his jambalaya and he made good jambalaya. But he was not even Cajun. I know that. Yeah. He's from the part of Louisiana, which is English background. He's not French. He was not a Cajun. But when he grew up in that area, he thought it was comical seeing these Cajun people like they were funny to him, you know, strange. He decided he was willing to cook and, you know, want to make a cook. Yeah. So he decided to make like a character. Yes. Cajun man. The Cajun man cook. And it worked and he just like, you know, like mock, like I was apologizing for mocking the Japanese dialect when he did a career mocking the Cajun dialect. But he didn't really denigrate them or anything. But who came first? Paul Prudone or Justin Wilson? I'm sure Justin Wilson. But wasn't Paul Prudone a better cook than Justin Wilson? Well, he was a more he was the actual. Yes, a real Cajun. And he he was a fine cuisine cook from in New Orleans. I loved his spices. I buy them. Yeah. Now, Justin Wilson did more like country cooking. Yeah, I get somebody's house out in the country. You know, like that cracker guy. He calls himself Stale Stale Cracker on Facebook. He's very very kind of Justin Wilson was a genius when it came to cooking. I mean, he did some good. He was good. Now, I used to watch his show. He was no joke, but his act was a joke. His character was a yeah, but it looked like Don Deleuys. Yes, he did. But he wasn't a he wasn't a molester like Deleuys was. Well, Deleuys had too much twinkling in his eye. He got sued for molesting masseuses and other things while he was living. I never heard anything like that. But oh, but it was you mean heterosexual. I saw Paul. No, no, no, I used to think that Don Deleuys had a lot of sugar in his tank, but I didn't know if he was probably bisexual if I had to guess. You know, there's a lot of I don't want to think about anybody who has a big Cheshire cat smile and twinkly eyes. Beware, beware. All I'll say is this. I went to a restaurant in New Orleans in 1996 one night. And I walked in the front door and there was Paul Prudhomme sitting at the head of the table. It's a true story. He had a pile of crawfish this high. Did he eat all of them? And he was sitting there eating them. And I was like, I couldn't get over this. I said, this is a he's going to eat all these breakfast. He was a big man, real big fat guy. This is why I say yeah, he was challenged. He loved food like too much. He was he was what's the word, vertically challenged? Yeah, he he passed away. He was a great chef and a big eater. Let's just say that popularized black and red fish. Yes, he he really he did a lot of great things. His wife passed away unexpectedly before him. I had heard I haven't seen the black and the black and dry well in a long time. Well, we still sell it over here. I see, Kate, does that Iran? Does that Iran's have to have their own black and they might? Yeah, probably so, yeah. That's a good company. Of course, that is got bought out by General Mills. Of course, they did. Oh, man, here we go. Now people are starting to complain that it's tasting kind of bland. Yeah, because the court is a part of the corporate takeover of the universe. And there's another local company in New Orleans called Pogreso, Pogreso Soup Company. Oh, that's sold out years ago. I bought out by General Mills and now everybody says their soup is bland. You know, they used to be when I was a kid, used to be near my hometown. It used to be in Rochelle Park, New Jersey, it was family owned. And when they sold out to General Mills, they went to the Midwest and now they left. No more family owned. And lo and behold, they started cutting corners, too many potatoes and not enough. Yeah, lots of salt. And you had to push the potatoes aside to find the clams in the clam chowder. Yeah. Yeah, too much sodium, you know. I don't eat soup like I used to when I was a kid, I eat soup more often. Yeah, but they when these companies come along, they make it off and you can't refuse, you know, yeah, and then they strip down your recipe and replace it with anything they can that's cheaper. Yeah, they say everybody has a price and then they finally offer your price. Yeah, like famous Ames cookies used to have nuts in them or they don't anymore. Entomans used to have nuts in the in the donuts. They had this crunch. They don't have them anymore. And the men's cheese, Danish, you know, the ring. Yeah, we still love the ring. You know, there was a sad sad news, the crinkle, the ones that made crinkles in Wisconsin, a famous company went out of business. They've been around for like 60 years. They make that crinkle, the Danish crinkle with the, you know, the pastry. It's it's a famous one. It's it's it's there in Wisconsin. I know famous from Chicago. Well, as long as Wayne Jacobs is still family owned over here, I'll be able to get Andui and Hogshead chiefs from them. Hopefully they don't get bought out by General Mills. Or yeah, hopefully not. Con Agra, Con Agra. A family owned, I always say a family owned business could has a firm grip on the reins to make sure that the straight and narrow is being followed. Yeah, the recipe is being honored and guarded. We got three big Andui places here in my town, three big ones. And they're all still family owned. Jacob, Bailey's and Wayne Jacobs. So get your fresh Andui and your Hogshead cheese. Is there anyone that that like would ship like FedEx or UPS or they all ship it? Yeah, you can order it on their website. Yep. You're paying Herman a leg to ship it, though. They got to put dry ice in it. You're right. Dry ice. Yeah. And styrofoam and it's got to be packed properly. Yeah, if you ever come to Louisiana, you can. You I'll take you over there and you you can try some of it. And I'm sure I'll try some of a lot of things. Sure, you'd love it. I there's a place, the Polish place in the Polish neighborhood, Piaz, that I used to drive to all the time. They they deliver, but you got to order $50 worth of. That's a lot of food for one person. $50 worth of food for one person. Yeah, yeah, it's we used to have a truck that went around the neighborhood. Delivering meat called Cox's meat market. And the truck was a store. You could walk up in the back of the truck and buy them. And yeah, well, in the old days, yeah, the good old days, my grandmother was young. They had they had fish market trucks. They had a lot of different food trucks. They used to, you know, they used to make their rounds every day up and down certain streets and never when Charles chips used to come around in a van and deliver chips, those metal chips to your house. Charles chips, famous amuses from Chicago, right? And then he went to Hawaii, didn't he? I think and then he sold the company and then they changed the recipe. Move to Hawaii. Yeah, I can't say but I Ronald, thank you for stopping by as usual. Thank you. Good to see you, bro. You too. And thank you, James and Mr. Mick and I appreciate you to let me join. No problem. Send me the link for Jopers Wild Wednesday. Oh, yeah, this Wednesday at 7 20 Eastern 7 7 20. Yes, Wednesday. Yeah, I'll send it to you. All right, gentlemen, everyone well Sunday. You too. Bye bye. All right. Take care. I'm signing off as well. Bye now. Bye bye, James. Bye bye. You're going to make me a pizza and you got to order your food. I got to order my food and I have to decide what I want. It's going to be either Chinese or a large pizza. And I think I'm making pizza again myself with the bobbily crust. The bobbily. I always laugh when I can't even get my pseudo date last night where we went to friends and I paid. Yeah, I find that funny and the photo was old where she was a different body type and I liked her from the waist up the bottom down, you know, the didn't match up that well with me. And so I haven't called her yet. The girl used you folks out there do a little do a little red pill, man cave talk. The date, the most recent date, internet date, online date that McFon Raven had. The girl used a very old photo when she was slim. Yes, false advertising, number one. Yes, yes, two. She established that they were just getting to know one another as friends, as friends. But but she made mid pay for everything, which include $30 cocktails and $5 tip. She didn't offer to pay the tip. I didn't ask her. It was not one penny for my friend. Yeah, for my friend. I had the same situation. I was the the honky of the gringo, wherever you want to call me. Yes. And I got stiffed with everything, the bill, the dinner, women filled. They they're using the power of the pee to do that, the power of the pussy to make the man pay. They they feel they delusionally feel, even though when they're having sex with the right man, they sure sound like they enjoy every second of it. Yeah, they do. And they use the power of the P pussy like their vagina is worth so much more than our genitalia. Well, without the penis, the JJ is just an empty hole. A peg for a hole for every hole, you need a peg for every peg. You need a hole. Yeah, I mean, the peg goes in the hole and then it comes out and it goes back in again. Yeah, and you make sure you stimulate their clitoris and everybody's happy. Make sure they come first before you do. That's what you that's how you satisfy a woman. But for a gender that feels there's so much better than us, they sure do a lot of hooting and hollering during intercourse. Yeah, they do. They sure do. You know, it's funny how that works. But anyway, we summarize it. All right, buddy. You start with your dinner and I'll decide what the hell I want. And let's let's have a quick chat when you can. I know you need to call an order. But I just want to say hi on the phone to you or something. Yeah, well, yeah, you can do that. Well, it's almost six. No, yeah, I always want to make sure you put your order in before I talk to you. Yeah, let me yeah, let me get my order in and then we'll have our little power. Yeah, give me a give me a text and I'll give you a call or give me a call, whatever's going to be for you, bro. The power will do the will confer will confer afterwards. The post progressive discussion power, the post progressive power. Sounds good, bro. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hello. All right, look forward to it, bro. Talk to you soon. Cheers, bye.