July 10, 2024 • 25 mins
The joke that was the debate; July 4th merriment; bad behavior on RyanAir and more…
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Greetings and welcome to the broadcast.Well, I'm back from my little hiatus
because I had to take some timeaway to have hernia surgery, which was
somewhat unexpected, mostly because the paingets so bad I could barely walk,
and there wasn't much choice in thematter. I had three hernias, Laura
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left, Laura right, and thevalue button. So leave it to me
to leave it to me to getthe triple crown of hernias. I tell
you I'm glad it was taken careof because that was no fun. And
then afterwards you don't realize how muchyou use your abdominal muscles for, like
just getting out of bed. Youdo realize after you've had abdominal surgery,
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because it hurts like hell to tryto get out of bed. It's a
major effort and you need some helpactually to get on your feet. I
must say that the people at theUPMC Memorial Hospital here in York, Pennsylvania
did a wonderful job. As usual, whenever I'm there for whatever I need
done, they're always very friendly andvery kind, and they helped make the
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whole situation a little bit better.And for anyone who has ever gone under
anesthesia, you know, it's it'sa rather interesting experience because all of a
sudden you're out. The last thingI remember is they rolled me into the
operating room. I was in theone room getting prepped, and they're all
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doing all their good stuff and shootingme with needles, and they gave me
a couple of pills. One ofthe nurses shaved me, and it's like,
so you go into the operating roomand the last thing I remember,
I look up at the lights andI'm out. I don't even know when
they had given me the anesthesia,but they obviously did. And I wake
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up in the recovery room. Andusually the first question you ask is is
it Oh, well, yes itis. Oh thank Christ. But it
would be nice if most of uscould just have like an anisteesia break during
the course of the day. Becauseyou're you're out, you don't even dream,
at least you don't remember dreaming.It. It's like being dead for
the most part. So but yeah, if we can all just have an
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anesthesia break for a half hour everyday, that'd probably be pretty cool.
Oh, just a suggestion to themedical community, if you could find a
way to arrange that for most ofus who live in the real world.
But anyway, speaking of the realworld, getting getting on onto other things
here, nothing I see has changedsince I've been away from my recuperation.
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I would like to touch on therecent debate between Donald Trump and and Joe
Biden, in which Joe Biden stammeredand stumbled and his voice trailed off.
He just look like a complete buffoonreally for the for the most part,
for lack of a better description,this has prompted many in the Democratic priorty
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to question Biden's fitness mental fitness tobe presidential candidate. I can tell you
this, another debate like that,another performance like that in public. They're
just going to hand the election toTrump. That's what's going to happen.
And of course, Trump, beingthe no class guy that he is,
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is out, you know, inhis fat ass in his golf card on
the golf course making some rather nastycomments about you know, Biden and Kamala
Harris. The fuck head really madesome inappropriate comments during his little discussion or
tirade or what do you want tocall it. It's tough to tell with
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Trump whether it's a political commentary ora tantrum. Biden is still insisting that
he's competent to run for the election. He's going to stay in the election.
He's not he's not quitting, butreally he needs to consider the better
of the not only the Democratic Party, but the benefit of the nation.
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I had to laugh. Somebody fromthe White House staff or whatever had said
that from like ten to four onany given day, Biden, Biden's he's
with it, He's he's on theball. Well, unfortunately, the world
doesn't quite function between ten and four. A terrorist attack is not going to
probably occur between ten and four,a war is not going to start between
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ten and four. So what arewe going to do in those other hours
outside of that time frame where Biden, I guess, is not quite with
it. I don't know. I'mjust I'm a little concerned with this sort
of Well, we're going to schedulethe world according to ten to four when
Biden is coherent and able to makesome decisions, and of course Trump isn't
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capable of making decisions twenty four toseven. So it's it's from bad to
worse either way. And of course, another one of the how should we
say jokes in this fucked up politicalrace we have going now is that Trump
is convicted of like about a bazillionfelonies and he's still running for president.
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Most people with that sort of criminalrecord probably wouldn't be able to get a
job as a cashier at Dollar General, let alone run for president of the
United States. What is going on? What the hell is going on with
this shit? This campaign is aboutas painful as using a cactus for a
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butt plug. And like I've saidbefore, this is making us look like
a mockery to the rest of theworld, where the nation is supposed to
be leading by example, Well,if this is our example, it's pretty
goddamn bad. And speaking of Trump'scriminal issues, how can he campaign and
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actually talk about plans for fighting crimeand keeping the streets safe from crime when
he himself is this huge felon.How can he do that with a straight
face? That's what I like,you know. Of course, of course,
he is so used to delivering bullshit. I guess it's second nature to
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him that right there is probably thesheer definition of Pampa's buffoon. And getting
back to Biden, some of whatwe see on a regular basis now these
video clips or whatever where he appearsconfused and he's roaming off and doesn't know
what he's doing or supposed to do. And then, of course the aforementioned
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disaster of the debate. Anyone else, you or I, if we were
out in public and we had momentslike that, someone would probably take us
in for a welfare check or somethingfor our own good. And yet there
were those in the Biden camp thatwe're telling us a lot of what we're
seeing is just stuff that is takenout of context. The media is jumping
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on this and they're making a circusout of it, and they're kind of
like stretching the reality that, oh, no, Biden is not that bad.
He can function perfectly well. Well, I guess between ten and four
we ken. But it is reallytime for someone to make some decisions here,
because you know, he, likeI said, this is just going
to hand the election to Trump.Anyways. They're basically saying, hey,
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here, Donald, take it.It's all yours because this guy can't find
his way across the room. Someonesuggested that probably the best thing right now
is for Kamala Harris to take over, and not only as president but also
as the Democratic candidate for the office. And here's another interesting thing. Apparently
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RFK, who I've been reading someof the stuff he puts out there on
on Twitter or x or whatever it'scalled. Some of what he said says
makes a lot of sense. Theguy has a lot of intelligence. He's
not radical or you know, outin left field. Either way, the
man knows what he's talking about,and he delivers it, you know,
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straight down the middle, no nofluff. Unfortunately, he was not allowed
to participate in this debate between Bidenand Trump, which I don't understand because
back many many moons ago, whenRoss Perrot was running as I guess an
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independent, he was allowed in someof the debates. If again, if
I'm remembering it remembering this correctly,it's a shame that they did not allow
RFK to debate because he would havecleaned up the floor with both of them.
Between Trump's constant radical nonsense that comesout of his mouth hole and Biden
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just not really able to deliver thatevening. RFK would definitely have run circles
around both of them. At thevery least, he would have made Trump
look like what he is, becausethe Donald would not be able to withstand
someone with an intellect debating against him. Plain and simple because despite all of
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his self love and pumping himself up, Trump is at the end of the
day really not that smart. Youknow. At the end of the day,
this election season is kind of likeeating ass. It leaves a really
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bad taste in your mouth. Let'shope the situation improves sometime soon for all
of our sakes. But anyways,moving along to other subject matter, it's
that time of the year, atleast it is here in south central Pennsylvania
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for the churches to have their vbs. Yes, they vacation Bible schools are
back timing the benefits of learning aboutJesus and whatnot. So the church next
to my house they have their VBSnow that they've been going on the last
couple of days, and they bringthe little kiddos outside to play certain games
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or whatever and whatnot. I guessit's all part of the learning experience.
So yesterday there's like a group ofthree adults who are running the Biblical show,
and there's maybe a half dozen guysin of the teenage persuasion who were
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assisting with the Bible school. Andthen there's a bunch of little kids.
And at one point during these games, they'd have the kids all line up,
and the teenagers would take cups ofwater and pour it over the heads
of the little kids, making themstand there while they did this. Granted,
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it's been about one hundred and fivedegrees around here like everywhere else with
the ongoing heat wave in the country, but even still, I don't understand
the point of what they're what thisexercise is supposed to prove. Unless it's
a quasi attempt at baptism or something, I don't know. It actually looked
like some sort of a strange hazingfor a secret society of kids more than
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anything else. It's kind of weird, really, but what a line.
I'm a diagnostics so I wouldn't beparticipating in such an event either way.
But I do find it interesting inwatching this little group out the window.
It's more entertaining than what's on TV. Sometimes the adults they just kind of
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like stand at one end. Thatthis church has a really big yard area,
and the adults like stand at oneend. They really don't want to
be there. They want to beat the local bar drinking some gin martinis.
But the teenage overseer assistance there waslike maybe three girls and two guys.
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One of the girls was wearing whatI would consider very inappropriate attire for
the event. Her spandex shorts werelike four sizes too tight and way way
too short. I have some tinyspandex shorts, but mine arenor nearly as
short as hers. So I'm guessingsomebody said something to her because she kind
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of disappeared for and came back withthis really longer T shirt to cover her
shorts. So I'm assuming that thesight of her visible chimeltoe in her shorts
was not apropos for the event therein, But nonetheless, they will be having
this merriment and festivity for the remainderof the week, I believe, in
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which they can pour more water onthe kids' heads and do whatever it is
they do for the sake of teachingthe children the benefits of Jesus in their
lives whatever. The Fourth of Julyrecently just came and went. I not
to sound unpatriotic, but I reallydon't celebrate the Fourth of July. Where
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I live, the local fireworks isquite visible from my bedroom window, so
I just sat there on the edgeof the bed watching the fire roys going
off instead of going and commingling withall the crowds. But who out there
heard about that recent tragic accident inSouth Carolina where the man who was one
guy dressed as Uncle Sam decided toset off some fireworks on top of his
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top hat. Well, needless tosay, he was killed due to what
they call massive head trauma. Andthere is I guess some video out there
of the incident, which I've notseen, nor do I care to say,
and obviously not to make light ofsuch a tragedy. I don't really
fathom what would possess the man todo this in the first place. You're
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basically setting off small bombs on topof your head. But it happened,
and it's most unfortunate. But reallythis brings me to a subject in that
anyone these days can go and buythese fireworks. Here in PA's legal for
anyone to go down to these fireworksplaces, and by what would normally be
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considered professional great fireworks. In myopinion, we're talking these big mortars and
stuff, because some of the fireworksshows that the neighbors put on are actually
better than the professional ones. Butthe question is, if you're not a
licensed professional to do this sort ofthing, should you even be handling these
things in the first place. WhenI was a kid, all we could
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get ahold of was some firecrackers andsparklers. That was it. Sparklers they
could be dangerous, but you haveto be really stupid to hurt yourself with
one of those. So why dowe continue to allow the general public to
buy these things? It's the emergencyrooms are full of people who'll get fingers
blown off, hands blown off,in a few cases, their feet blown
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off. They lose an eye,they lose other parts of their body,
which I won't go into. Whyare we doing this? And I'm sure
many of you out there can relateif you're anything like my neighborhood, where
everyone for some reason decides to setout their fireworks at the same time and
is driving my dog is crazy.Is driving me crazy enough already Some of
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us are in bed trying to getsome sleep. Some of us had to
get up early the next day.So take your fireworks and shut up your
ass. But I'm guessing the pointof my little story here is that obviously
some states should reconsider the laws thatallow just anyone to walk in and buy
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certain fireworks simply because there are waytoo many stupid people in the world to
be even allowed to handle small explosivedevices, even for entertainment purposes. It's
time to get it back to wherewe need to be and leave some of
the serious fireworks to people who knowwhat they're doing with them. I don't
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know if that makes any sense,but it is my story and I'm sticking
to it. While on the subjectof stupid people, I would like to
speak for a moment about the storyfrom Florida where this one woman who would
probably as the stupidest mom in theworld. She apparently, according to the
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gist of this story, she metthis guy by the pool. I think
it was at a hotel. Shehad her four year old son with her,
and for some reason, during thecourse of the day or whatever,
she decided she needed to go takea bath. So she got this guy,
this total stranger who she had justmet, watch her kid for her,
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and for whatever reason, this guytakes the kid up to uh,
like a second floor balcony or whatever, and he holds the kid over the
railing and drops a kid onto ontohis head down on the ground down below,
causing serious injury to the child.They did not say what condition.
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You know this kid is in rightnow, but probably not good that type
of a head injury. Needless tosay that the guy is being charged.
I'm not sure if the mother's gonnaface any charges in this case, but
she should because this is clearly acase of neglect. You just suddenly let
this stranger who you do not know, you've only met, I guess a
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couple hours prior by the pool,and you're just gonna stroll off and take
a bath and let this guy watchyour kid. And the guy had told
her something to the effect that hewas gonna scare the kid, So I
don't know if that's what he wastrying to do by dangling the kid over
the rearling. But according to thewitnesses, this guy just dropped the kid.
It wasn't a case where you letthe kids slip. He just intentally
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drop the kid. But before Iget you know, two winded here,
what kind of stupidity you have possessedthe mother to let some stranger, even
you know, watch her kid forten minutes, let alone, you know,
for a standard period by she goesoff doing whatever she's doing to clean
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up. And I'm guessing this guywas probably hoping he was gonna get a
quick piece of ass out of all. This may is one of the reasons
why he dropped the kid over therailing. Who knows, but this is
one of those cases where a sheshould not be a parent by no means.
And this guy, I don't knowwhat you know, cuckoo tree he
fell out of, but he's obviouslynot all there. You just don't take
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someone and drop him over a railing. What do you think is gonna happen?
Do you think, first of all, you're gonna get away with it,
because apparently there was a lot ofwitnesses and it was even a video
from the hotel cameras or whatever.So really what gives here? And as
far as the mother is concerned,at the very least, this kid needs
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to be taken away from her becauseshe is not a fit parent, plain
and simple. Yes, it's allpart of the stupid world we live in.
But mosing along, as I closeout this episode, I'd like to
touch for a moment on the recentbrawl that occurred on a Ryan Air flight
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in which basically almost the entire planewas involved in this melee that took place,
which started because somebody had asked someoneelse if they could move so they
could be seated next to their significantother during the flight. The person in
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the seat did not want to move, and rightfully, so you're not entitled
to get up and move for somebodywho should have made better arrangements before the
flight and to make sure you'd besitting next to your honey. So the
person didn't move, and that's whattriggered this whole fight that got out of
control very quick. It got sobad, this melee on board the plane,
that they had to make an emergencylanding. There were quite a few
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people involved. They were all detainedafterwards, and I mean, I'm hoping
that, you know, they mightbe facing some relatively serious charges because this
could cause the plane to crash.You know, stupidity like this. All
it takes is someone to open oneof the emergency exit or whatever and depressurize
the plane and cause all sorts ofproblems. But now they don't think about
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that when they, you know,all let's just get into a brawl because
some of them won't move out ofa seat. Really, come on,
now, use your heads. Everyonein these days is so god named fucking
childish. When they don't get theirway, they gotta throw a tantrum,
and it involves fists being thrown andheavy objects being thrown, and God only
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knows what else. Why don't y'allgrow up and act like adults for a
change? Try that ouversize, theworld doesn't always work the way it's supposed
to do it the way you wantit to. So if you can't get
the seat you want, then justsit down where you're supposed to, shut
up and enjoy the flight. AndI've touched upon this subject before that because
this sort of nonsense has caused afew other problems on flights where people refuse
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to move. And again, you'renot supposed to When people are assigned seats
on an aircraft, it's an importantaspect of the weight balances of that plane.
If people start moving around, itcould shift the weight enough to cause
problems on the plane. So there'sa reason why you're not supposed to be
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moving around while you're flying. You'renot at a family reunion where you're just
moving around the different picnic benches tobe close to your cousin. No,
that's not how this works. Thereis a reason why you're seated where you're
seated and why you're supposed to stayin that seat. And I was looking
the other day at some vintage airlinephotographs back in the day, like in
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the sixties, when people would fly, they would wear their Sunday best.
Everyone was smiling, Everyone was nice, and everyone behaved. There was never
a brawl. There was never thisstupid, barbaric nonsense with a bunch of
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people acting like wild out of controlledchimpanzees in heat. It was civil,
it was enjoyable, it was pleasant. But not anymore. Now someone has
a problem, it's you know,kill everyone or beat everyone up until I
get my way. So let mesay this one more time, very succinctly,
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to those who fly in planes orhave to interact in other social settings
with other human beings. You are, most of you are adults. Start
acting like it. Grow the fuckup, and don't go cuckoo just because
something doesn't perfectly suit you in life. It's not a call to act like
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some sort of mad person who's outon a vendetta. No, no,
you know, maybe you see thatsort of thing in the movies, but
that's the movies. We're not supposedto behave like the movies. Do you
see where I'm getting what I'm drivingat here. I'm a very big advocate
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of trying to return some civility tolife, because it's rapidly going out the
window these days and it's not apleasant experience. Okay, I think I've
random enough for this episode. Almosttime for me to sign off. I
gotta catch my breath. I wouldlike to thank you for listening to this
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episode following my lengthy sabbatical because ofmy hernia surgery. Hopefully now there will
be some episodes coming up on aregular basis about any long gaps between said
episodes. Also like to remind youto feel free. Feel free, I
can't talk. I think they're operatedout of my mouth too, but I'm
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having trouble talking here. But anyways, feel let me try this. Feel
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free to subscribe. Thank you,and until next time. I'm losing it
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again. Until next time, pleasehave a good day. Try to be
nice. Don't start to fight onan airplane. If you're flying somewhere,
just sit there and be quiet.And until next time. So long for
now, bye bye,
Greetings and welcome to the broadcast.Well, I'm back from my little hiatus
because I had to take some timeaway to have hernia surgery, which was
somewhat unexpected, mostly because the paingets so bad I could barely walk,
and there wasn't much choice in thematter. I had three hernias, Laura
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left, Laura right, and thevalue button. So leave it to me
to leave it to me to getthe triple crown of hernias. I tell
you I'm glad it was taken careof because that was no fun. And
then afterwards you don't realize how muchyou use your abdominal muscles for, like
just getting out of bed. Youdo realize after you've had abdominal surgery,
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because it hurts like hell to tryto get out of bed. It's a
major effort and you need some helpactually to get on your feet. I
must say that the people at theUPMC Memorial Hospital here in York, Pennsylvania
did a wonderful job. As usual, whenever I'm there for whatever I need
done, they're always very friendly andvery kind, and they helped make the
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whole situation a little bit better.And for anyone who has ever gone under
anesthesia, you know, it's it'sa rather interesting experience because all of a
sudden you're out. The last thingI remember is they rolled me into the
operating room. I was in theone room getting prepped, and they're all
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doing all their good stuff and shootingme with needles, and they gave me
a couple of pills. One ofthe nurses shaved me, and it's like,
so you go into the operating roomand the last thing I remember,
I look up at the lights andI'm out. I don't even know when
they had given me the anesthesia,but they obviously did. And I wake
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up in the recovery room. Andusually the first question you ask is is
it Oh, well, yes itis. Oh thank Christ. But it
would be nice if most of uscould just have like an anisteesia break during
the course of the day. Becauseyou're you're out, you don't even dream,
at least you don't remember dreaming.It. It's like being dead for
the most part. So but yeah, if we can all just have an
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anesthesia break for a half hour everyday, that'd probably be pretty cool.
Oh, just a suggestion to themedical community, if you could find a
way to arrange that for most ofus who live in the real world.
But anyway, speaking of the realworld, getting getting on onto other things
here, nothing I see has changedsince I've been away from my recuperation.
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I would like to touch on therecent debate between Donald Trump and and Joe
Biden, in which Joe Biden stammeredand stumbled and his voice trailed off.
He just look like a complete buffoonreally for the for the most part,
for lack of a better description,this has prompted many in the Democratic priorty
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to question Biden's fitness mental fitness tobe presidential candidate. I can tell you
this, another debate like that,another performance like that in public. They're
just going to hand the election toTrump. That's what's going to happen.
And of course, Trump, beingthe no class guy that he is,
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is out, you know, inhis fat ass in his golf card on
the golf course making some rather nastycomments about you know, Biden and Kamala
Harris. The fuck head really madesome inappropriate comments during his little discussion or
tirade or what do you want tocall it. It's tough to tell with
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Trump whether it's a political commentary ora tantrum. Biden is still insisting that
he's competent to run for the election. He's going to stay in the election.
He's not he's not quitting, butreally he needs to consider the better
of the not only the Democratic Party, but the benefit of the nation.
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I had to laugh. Somebody fromthe White House staff or whatever had said
that from like ten to four onany given day, Biden, Biden's he's
with it, He's he's on theball. Well, unfortunately, the world
doesn't quite function between ten and four. A terrorist attack is not going to
probably occur between ten and four,a war is not going to start between
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ten and four. So what arewe going to do in those other hours
outside of that time frame where Biden, I guess, is not quite with
it. I don't know. I'mjust I'm a little concerned with this sort
of Well, we're going to schedulethe world according to ten to four when
Biden is coherent and able to makesome decisions, and of course Trump isn't
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capable of making decisions twenty four toseven. So it's it's from bad to
worse either way. And of course, another one of the how should we
say jokes in this fucked up politicalrace we have going now is that Trump
is convicted of like about a bazillionfelonies and he's still running for president.
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Most people with that sort of criminalrecord probably wouldn't be able to get a
job as a cashier at Dollar General, let alone run for president of the
United States. What is going on? What the hell is going on with
this shit? This campaign is aboutas painful as using a cactus for a
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butt plug. And like I've saidbefore, this is making us look like
a mockery to the rest of theworld, where the nation is supposed to
be leading by example, Well,if this is our example, it's pretty
goddamn bad. And speaking of Trump'scriminal issues, how can he campaign and
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actually talk about plans for fighting crimeand keeping the streets safe from crime when
he himself is this huge felon.How can he do that with a straight
face? That's what I like,you know. Of course, of course,
he is so used to delivering bullshit. I guess it's second nature to
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him that right there is probably thesheer definition of Pampa's buffoon. And getting
back to Biden, some of whatwe see on a regular basis now these
video clips or whatever where he appearsconfused and he's roaming off and doesn't know
what he's doing or supposed to do. And then, of course the aforementioned
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disaster of the debate. Anyone else, you or I, if we were
out in public and we had momentslike that, someone would probably take us
in for a welfare check or somethingfor our own good. And yet there
were those in the Biden camp thatwe're telling us a lot of what we're
seeing is just stuff that is takenout of context. The media is jumping
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on this and they're making a circusout of it, and they're kind of
like stretching the reality that, oh, no, Biden is not that bad.
He can function perfectly well. Well, I guess between ten and four
we ken. But it is reallytime for someone to make some decisions here,
because you know, he, likeI said, this is just going
to hand the election to Trump.Anyways. They're basically saying, hey,
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here, Donald, take it.It's all yours because this guy can't find
his way across the room. Someonesuggested that probably the best thing right now
is for Kamala Harris to take over, and not only as president but also
as the Democratic candidate for the office. And here's another interesting thing. Apparently
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RFK, who I've been reading someof the stuff he puts out there on
on Twitter or x or whatever it'scalled. Some of what he said says
makes a lot of sense. Theguy has a lot of intelligence. He's
not radical or you know, outin left field. Either way, the
man knows what he's talking about,and he delivers it, you know,
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straight down the middle, no nofluff. Unfortunately, he was not allowed
to participate in this debate between Bidenand Trump, which I don't understand because
back many many moons ago, whenRoss Perrot was running as I guess an
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independent, he was allowed in someof the debates. If again, if
I'm remembering it remembering this correctly,it's a shame that they did not allow
RFK to debate because he would havecleaned up the floor with both of them.
Between Trump's constant radical nonsense that comesout of his mouth hole and Biden
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just not really able to deliver thatevening. RFK would definitely have run circles
around both of them. At thevery least, he would have made Trump
look like what he is, becausethe Donald would not be able to withstand
someone with an intellect debating against him. Plain and simple because despite all of
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his self love and pumping himself up, Trump is at the end of the
day really not that smart. Youknow. At the end of the day,
this election season is kind of likeeating ass. It leaves a really
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bad taste in your mouth. Let'shope the situation improves sometime soon for all
of our sakes. But anyways,moving along to other subject matter, it's
that time of the year, atleast it is here in south central Pennsylvania
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for the churches to have their vbs. Yes, they vacation Bible schools are
back timing the benefits of learning aboutJesus and whatnot. So the church next
to my house they have their VBSnow that they've been going on the last
couple of days, and they bringthe little kiddos outside to play certain games
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or whatever and whatnot. I guessit's all part of the learning experience.
So yesterday there's like a group ofthree adults who are running the Biblical show,
and there's maybe a half dozen guysin of the teenage persuasion who were
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assisting with the Bible school. Andthen there's a bunch of little kids.
And at one point during these games, they'd have the kids all line up,
and the teenagers would take cups ofwater and pour it over the heads
of the little kids, making themstand there while they did this. Granted,
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it's been about one hundred and fivedegrees around here like everywhere else with
the ongoing heat wave in the country, but even still, I don't understand
the point of what they're what thisexercise is supposed to prove. Unless it's
a quasi attempt at baptism or something, I don't know. It actually looked
like some sort of a strange hazingfor a secret society of kids more than
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anything else. It's kind of weird, really, but what a line.
I'm a diagnostics so I wouldn't beparticipating in such an event either way.
But I do find it interesting inwatching this little group out the window.
It's more entertaining than what's on TV. Sometimes the adults they just kind of
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like stand at one end. Thatthis church has a really big yard area,
and the adults like stand at oneend. They really don't want to
be there. They want to beat the local bar drinking some gin martinis.
But the teenage overseer assistance there waslike maybe three girls and two guys.
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One of the girls was wearing whatI would consider very inappropriate attire for
the event. Her spandex shorts werelike four sizes too tight and way way
too short. I have some tinyspandex shorts, but mine arenor nearly as
short as hers. So I'm guessingsomebody said something to her because she kind
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of disappeared for and came back withthis really longer T shirt to cover her
shorts. So I'm assuming that thesight of her visible chimeltoe in her shorts
was not apropos for the event therein, But nonetheless, they will be having
this merriment and festivity for the remainderof the week, I believe, in
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which they can pour more water onthe kids' heads and do whatever it is
they do for the sake of teachingthe children the benefits of Jesus in their
lives whatever. The Fourth of Julyrecently just came and went. I not
to sound unpatriotic, but I reallydon't celebrate the Fourth of July. Where
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I live, the local fireworks isquite visible from my bedroom window, so
I just sat there on the edgeof the bed watching the fire roys going
off instead of going and commingling withall the crowds. But who out there
heard about that recent tragic accident inSouth Carolina where the man who was one
guy dressed as Uncle Sam decided toset off some fireworks on top of his
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top hat. Well, needless tosay, he was killed due to what
they call massive head trauma. Andthere is I guess some video out there
of the incident, which I've notseen, nor do I care to say,
and obviously not to make light ofsuch a tragedy. I don't really
fathom what would possess the man todo this in the first place. You're
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basically setting off small bombs on topof your head. But it happened,
and it's most unfortunate. But reallythis brings me to a subject in that
anyone these days can go and buythese fireworks. Here in PA's legal for
anyone to go down to these fireworksplaces, and by what would normally be
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considered professional great fireworks. In myopinion, we're talking these big mortars and
stuff, because some of the fireworksshows that the neighbors put on are actually
better than the professional ones. Butthe question is, if you're not a
licensed professional to do this sort ofthing, should you even be handling these
things in the first place. WhenI was a kid, all we could
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get ahold of was some firecrackers andsparklers. That was it. Sparklers they
could be dangerous, but you haveto be really stupid to hurt yourself with
one of those. So why dowe continue to allow the general public to
buy these things? It's the emergencyrooms are full of people who'll get fingers
blown off, hands blown off,in a few cases, their feet blown
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off. They lose an eye,they lose other parts of their body,
which I won't go into. Whyare we doing this? And I'm sure
many of you out there can relateif you're anything like my neighborhood, where
everyone for some reason decides to setout their fireworks at the same time and
is driving my dog is crazy.Is driving me crazy enough already Some of
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us are in bed trying to getsome sleep. Some of us had to
get up early the next day.So take your fireworks and shut up your
ass. But I'm guessing the pointof my little story here is that obviously
some states should reconsider the laws thatallow just anyone to walk in and buy
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certain fireworks simply because there are waytoo many stupid people in the world to
be even allowed to handle small explosivedevices, even for entertainment purposes. It's
time to get it back to wherewe need to be and leave some of
the serious fireworks to people who knowwhat they're doing with them. I don't
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know if that makes any sense,but it is my story and I'm sticking
to it. While on the subjectof stupid people, I would like to
speak for a moment about the storyfrom Florida where this one woman who would
probably as the stupidest mom in theworld. She apparently, according to the
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gist of this story, she metthis guy by the pool. I think
it was at a hotel. Shehad her four year old son with her,
and for some reason, during thecourse of the day or whatever,
she decided she needed to go takea bath. So she got this guy,
this total stranger who she had justmet, watch her kid for her,
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and for whatever reason, this guytakes the kid up to uh,
like a second floor balcony or whatever, and he holds the kid over the
railing and drops a kid onto ontohis head down on the ground down below,
causing serious injury to the child.They did not say what condition.
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You know this kid is in rightnow, but probably not good that type
of a head injury. Needless tosay that the guy is being charged.
I'm not sure if the mother's gonnaface any charges in this case, but
she should because this is clearly acase of neglect. You just suddenly let
this stranger who you do not know, you've only met, I guess a
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couple hours prior by the pool,and you're just gonna stroll off and take
a bath and let this guy watchyour kid. And the guy had told
her something to the effect that hewas gonna scare the kid, So I
don't know if that's what he wastrying to do by dangling the kid over
the rearling. But according to thewitnesses, this guy just dropped the kid.
It wasn't a case where you letthe kids slip. He just intentally
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drop the kid. But before Iget you know, two winded here,
what kind of stupidity you have possessedthe mother to let some stranger, even
you know, watch her kid forten minutes, let alone, you know,
for a standard period by she goesoff doing whatever she's doing to clean
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up. And I'm guessing this guywas probably hoping he was gonna get a
quick piece of ass out of all. This may is one of the reasons
why he dropped the kid over therailing. Who knows, but this is
one of those cases where a sheshould not be a parent by no means.
And this guy, I don't knowwhat you know, cuckoo tree he
fell out of, but he's obviouslynot all there. You just don't take
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someone and drop him over a railing. What do you think is gonna happen?
Do you think, first of all, you're gonna get away with it,
because apparently there was a lot ofwitnesses and it was even a video
from the hotel cameras or whatever.So really what gives here? And as
far as the mother is concerned,at the very least, this kid needs
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to be taken away from her becauseshe is not a fit parent, plain
and simple. Yes, it's allpart of the stupid world we live in.
But mosing along, as I closeout this episode, I'd like to
touch for a moment on the recentbrawl that occurred on a Ryan Air flight
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in which basically almost the entire planewas involved in this melee that took place,
which started because somebody had asked someoneelse if they could move so they
could be seated next to their significantother during the flight. The person in
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the seat did not want to move, and rightfully, so you're not entitled
to get up and move for somebodywho should have made better arrangements before the
flight and to make sure you'd besitting next to your honey. So the
person didn't move, and that's whattriggered this whole fight that got out of
control very quick. It got sobad, this melee on board the plane,
that they had to make an emergencylanding. There were quite a few
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people involved. They were all detainedafterwards, and I mean, I'm hoping
that, you know, they mightbe facing some relatively serious charges because this
could cause the plane to crash.You know, stupidity like this. All
it takes is someone to open oneof the emergency exit or whatever and depressurize
the plane and cause all sorts ofproblems. But now they don't think about
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that when they, you know,all let's just get into a brawl because
some of them won't move out ofa seat. Really, come on,
now, use your heads. Everyonein these days is so god named fucking
childish. When they don't get theirway, they gotta throw a tantrum,
and it involves fists being thrown andheavy objects being thrown, and God only
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knows what else. Why don't y'allgrow up and act like adults for a
change? Try that ouversize, theworld doesn't always work the way it's supposed
to do it the way you wantit to. So if you can't get
the seat you want, then justsit down where you're supposed to, shut
up and enjoy the flight. AndI've touched upon this subject before that because
this sort of nonsense has caused afew other problems on flights where people refuse
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to move. And again, you'renot supposed to When people are assigned seats
on an aircraft, it's an importantaspect of the weight balances of that plane.
If people start moving around, itcould shift the weight enough to cause
problems on the plane. So there'sa reason why you're not supposed to be
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moving around while you're flying. You'renot at a family reunion where you're just
moving around the different picnic benches tobe close to your cousin. No,
that's not how this works. Thereis a reason why you're seated where you're
seated and why you're supposed to stayin that seat. And I was looking
the other day at some vintage airlinephotographs back in the day, like in
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the sixties, when people would fly, they would wear their Sunday best.
Everyone was smiling, Everyone was nice, and everyone behaved. There was never
a brawl. There was never thisstupid, barbaric nonsense with a bunch of
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people acting like wild out of controlledchimpanzees in heat. It was civil,
it was enjoyable, it was pleasant. But not anymore. Now someone has
a problem, it's you know,kill everyone or beat everyone up until I
get my way. So let mesay this one more time, very succinctly,
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to those who fly in planes orhave to interact in other social settings
with other human beings. You are, most of you are adults. Start
acting like it. Grow the fuckup, and don't go cuckoo just because
something doesn't perfectly suit you in life. It's not a call to act like
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some sort of mad person who's outon a vendetta. No, no,
you know, maybe you see thatsort of thing in the movies, but
that's the movies. We're not supposedto behave like the movies. Do you
see where I'm getting what I'm drivingat here. I'm a very big advocate
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of trying to return some civility tolife, because it's rapidly going out the
window these days and it's not apleasant experience. Okay, I think I've
random enough for this episode. Almosttime for me to sign off. I
gotta catch my breath. I wouldlike to thank you for listening to this
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episode following my lengthy sabbatical because ofmy hernia surgery. Hopefully now there will
be some episodes coming up on aregular basis about any long gaps between said
episodes. Also like to remind youto feel free. Feel free, I
can't talk. I think they're operatedout of my mouth too, but I'm
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having trouble talking here. But anyways, feel let me try this. Feel
free to subscribe to this wonderful auditoryexperience because it is free and it is
available on most of your major platformsout there wherever you listen, So feel
free to subscribe. Thank you,and until next time. I'm losing it
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again. Until next time, pleasehave a good day. Try to be
nice. Don't start to fight onan airplane. If you're flying somewhere,
just sit there and be quiet.And until next time. So long for
now, bye bye,
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