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A Love Letter to GitmoRoyal Rumble 2025. Yeah, I like wrestling. Sue me. Automating the whole podcast process? AI and my external hard drive full of photosAgainst my better judgment, I've opened comments on the site. Hero Syndrome: I still think that 2.0 will be similar to 1.0 when it comes to astonishing incompetence. Don’t be surprised if they tank everything trying to solve a problem they created. I just wish they could do that without getting people killed. Why even have confirmation hearings if they're just going to perjure themselves with no consequence? End the hearing if you catch them in a lie. End the hearing if they dodge questions, or don't answer. End the hearing the first time someone doesn't answer a yes or no question with a yes or no. Just adjourn, clear the room, and let the nominee sit there. As always, this will not happen. Ever. Wouldn't it be awesome, though? Do we point and laugh at the clown show? Samsung announced they are working on a non-invasive blood sugar monitor for a wearable. Jim Acosta, Journ-A Lister? I hope not. “I did that” stickers—Biden’s on gas pumps, Trump’s on eggs. How original. Please jump off a cliff into a pit of rusty razor blades.T.F.E. The F@@king Experts. There's not a thing they don't know, just ask them.

This is a continuation of last week's rant about Walled Gardens like Facebook and open source. H/T to heathcliffnull for explaining like I'm five. Link:Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech

There are no bells and whistles on this one, just straight with no chaser. A little bit of current events, a little personal, and less than a quark of f's given. I think you'll get it.

SEGMENT 1Don’t Look Back In Anger. SEGMENT 2“If Y’all could just get back to the Culture War and fighting each other instead of the Upper Class, that’d be great”. CEO’s, probably. When you cheer because ABC settled a lawsuit over the difference between rape and sexual assault, that’s got to be the weakest flex ever. Look. I don’t know how we will cope through the next four years. I sincerely hope this bunch will be as incompetent as the last bunch and that we all live through that incompetence.

SEGMENT 1Christmas wrapping (thyself around a telephone pole). Lynnhaven Mall Exit Swerve. I don’t complain anymore. I’ve been to New York since then. Taxi Story Navigator Story——-SEGMENT 2All the news that’s printed to fit. Rudy Is Losing It https://newrepublic.com/post/188868/courtroom-sketch-artist-rudy-giuliani-losing-itThe PodBros are coming https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/11/27/2288821/-Yikes-Trump-may-let-podcast-bros-into-White-House-Briefing-Room?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=The Right’s 24/365 Propaganda Machine Vs…nothing. And you wonder why the Dems lost. Meanwhile, Legacy Corporate Media is rotting. The next stars in the Democratic Party—the one we run for office, anyway— need to embrace, even CREATE, new media. They need to start now. Gavin Newsom needs a podcast. Mayor Pete needs to be on Hot Ones. Run with that. Jack Smith Report expected to be released before Inauguration Day. https://www.newsweek.com/jack-smith-deadline-final-donald-trump-report-1991904 Looking at you, Garland.

Wordpress Upgrade / Changed to Twenty-Twenty Five Theme, clean designYellowstone. Holy crap. Taylor Sheridan is Shonda in boots, apparently. My day job. Some of y’all are rude. My fraud story from this week. B-Roll. One day I might get to use it. ----Joe and MikaManhattan DA Delay in Sentencing.Nancy Mace The race to replace mainstream mediakrisroley.com

* welcome back* Heart attack* Evolution of personality. ---* Tyson Fight/ Netflix stress test for RAW. * Cabinet appointments. * Changing vote? Too late. * Tariffs? 80s Movie out front should have told you.* I can ignore it, but there’s a reason I can: They hate all of us, but it's by degrees.

Roley leads a meeting to gauge how close they are to going live. To be continued...

Roley has an idea for Mayor Bumfiddle that might be a win-win for everyone, as long as the Mayor can remember what it is.

Reno visits Fitzroy Delacoudray from the local car dealer for some help on the local advertising front.

Reno tells Roley that a different approach is needed. Roley is apprehensive about any plan Reno comes up with.

With Roley safely out of the studio, Al continues trying to host his own show. It still goes pretty much how you expect.

Al gets to host his very own show! It goes about how you'd expect.

The crew tries to come up with ideas for the first shows on the network.

Bubba is convinced that his 15-year-old son Angus--sorry, Twitch--can help assemble the new Podcast website. Roley thinks Twitch is almost as irritating as Al.

Welcome Back, to that same old place that you laughed about...Welcome back to The Pungoverse. In this new season, WYRD 101 is no longer the worst radio station in America...because it's no longer a radio station. Someone--we won't say who--made a boo-boo. Shocker, I know. Of course, Reno is full of ideas on how to pivot. There's no way this ends well.

Happy Clocky Thing. I've been away because I haven't felt motivated to do anything. Then Jim Ladd died. Stay Tuned.

Since Incelus Maximus, SUPER GENIUS has pretty much ruined that place that used to be full of birds, I was looking for other places to toot, teet, twat, whatever. Then I asked myself why...

An idea I came up with years ago to get rid of the abject terror I've had every fall. You all go for Pumpkin Spice Latte, I go for the anti-anxiety meds.

How much stuff should be on my to-do list? I mean, if I had one.

Labor Day always felt like a time to reset, and so it is this time.

In praise of the bad guys. RIP Windham Rotunda.

Getting In Trump's Ear.

Hustle Game, Melting Brain.

Yay. More Reality TV. Great. #strike #sag #aftra #wga #streaming #realitytv

Short bit of poddlement this week, where your intrepid host goes begging for Threads.

It's Time to not be nice, So That Happened, Stupid People are Stupid, and started with the Crazy, now we're here. #podcast #elon #espn #france #rosannebarr #andreamitchell #marshablackburnLinks:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thousands-users-report-problems-accessing-twitter-met-rate-limit-excee-rcna92188https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/media/espn-layoffs/index.htmlhttps://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/07/01/france-1300-arrested-79-officers-hurt-night-rioting-across-France/7881688216841/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roseanne-barr-cancels-herself-nobody-175232785.htmlConnect with me on...something @krisroley or head to the website, http://krisroley.com

Man On An Island, So That Happened, Stupid People are Stupid, and I don't want to hear about the tip. #podcast #wfh #biden #boebert #gop #russia #kendrakingsbury #kentchristmas #mileswalker #cagematch #zuckerberg #musk

MONOLOGUE:Back on my Bullshit, and removing the Citrus. SO THAT HAPPENED:1https://apnews.com/article/amazon-outage-aws-cloud-services-be93bc744e4e69d04055683830a409c3(AP) Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services experienced an outage on Tuesday, affecting publishers that suddenly found themselves unable to operate their sites.The company said on its website that the root cause of the issue was tied to a service called AWS Lambda, which lets customers run code for different types of applications.Roughly two hours after customer began experiencing errors, the company posted on its AWS status page that many of the affected AWS services were “fully recovered” and it was continuing to recover the rest.**On a related note, I was window shopping on Amazon at the time. So, to paraphrase the words of the lady in the cafe’ in When Harry Met Sally, ‘I’ll have what Jeff’s having”. 2https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/13/politics/karine-jean-pierre-hatch-act/index.htmlCNN  — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre violated the Hatch Act for using the term “mega MAGA” from the briefing room podium, the US Office of the Special Counsel has determined, and has received a warning letter.Jean-Pierre was found to be in violation of the Hatch Act, a law that is supposed to stop the federal government from affecting elections or going about its activities in a partisan manner, when she said “mega MAGA Republican officials who don’t believe in the rule of law,” according to a letter from OSC. The letter was addressed to Michael Chamberlain, a former Trump administration official and director of the “Protect the Public’s Trust” organization, after Chamberlain filed a complaint that Jean-Pierre used the phrase “mega MAGA Republican[s]” in an “an inappropriate attempt to influence the vote.”“OSC has investigated your allegation and concluded that Ms. Jean‐Pierre violated the Hatch Act. However … we have decided not to pursue disciplinary action and have instead issued Ms. Jean‐Pierre a warning letter,” OSC’s Hatch Act Unit chief Ana Galindo-Marrone said in the June 7 letter to Chamberlain, who served in the Department of Education during Donald Trump’s presidency.https://osc.gov/News/Pages/19-10-Kellyanne-Conway-Hatch-Act.aspxhttps://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/kellyanne-conway-eclipses-50-hatch-act-violations-on-twitter/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/protect-publics-trust-nonprofit-status_n_64553faae4b0452cee9d5df0**I wonder what Mr. Chamberlain has to say about the numerous times Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act during the previous administration. You know, the one he was also a part of. The OSC recommended to the former President that Conway be removed from office, which of course didn’t happen. You might remember Conway saying “If you’re trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it’s not going to work,” and “Let me know when the jail sentence starts.”Also, Protect the Public Trust seems to have an identity problem. It doesn’t know what to call itself, a non profit, an NGO, or something else. It also doesn’t want you to know how it gets funded. There’s a word for a person that doesn’t want you to know the truth about them and has a shitload of money with no visible means of support, and since we’re not talking about anyone I’m related to…well, crook still applies. They’re a crook. Pay no attention to them. 3https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/virginia-beach-students-parents-react-narrowly-passed-lgbtq-resolution/291-8690e1e2-b2da-4b50-9299-65cb72bc5219https://youtu.be/TV3UTm-Q97k[13 News] VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — It's a contentious topic that has plagued Virginia Beach City Public Schools for more than a year: determining what to do with a proposed LGBTQ+ resolution.The

I am not a person who knows how to rest. My brain is constantly nagging at me that I should be doing something, and then when I get to bed, it nags at me about the stuff I didn't get to. Still, even with the past couple of weeks I've had to look after the wife and kids, I've worked the full-time job after she came home and worked out how to start the blogging and podcasting again as a creative release, plus the usual house stuff and more. As you might imagine, it's exhausting, yet I have the most significant problem acknowledging my exhaustion. So, here it is: I'm a wreck. I will lessen my load a bit over time, and one of the first things I can do to help myself is to stop duplicating effort. More on that at the end. For now, let's navigate to the meat. Axios wrote an article entitled America The Single over the weekend, in which they note that the marriage rate has dropped 60 percent in the last 50 years. Also, The Hill has an article over the weekend that states that 60 percent of young men—in their twenties—are single, nearly twice the rate of young women. They then go on to mention the declining pay gap, the fact that more women than men are getting degrees, the fact that 1/5 of Gen Z identify as LGBT, more young women are marrying older men, and that, finally, more and more women don't feel like they have to 'settle' anymore. This is the nightmare scenario if you are a white supremacist, Republican, evangelical, an incel, or all of the above. Honestly, I'm not sure who to point and laugh at the most, but I'm leaning toward the incels because they're the ones that are most likely to have a meltdown over the realization that they will never get what they want unless they do the one thing they refuse to do: Level the fuck up. Sadly, the first part of leveling up is to admit that it's no one else's fault, and the vast majority of them have been led to believe they've done everything right; it's someone else's problem.Expanding on the Incel problem for a moment, and I might be wrong on this, but that's never stopped me: It would be easy for me to project the characters of Ducky, Brian Johnson, or any other nerdy guy in the iconic movies of my childhood that didn't get the girl onto them, and they might even believe that they are some variation of those characters. I often wonder if those characters didn't become problematic in the ensuing years, but I've never thought it was intentional. What is intended is the choices these incels have made since. We might be able to assume that Brian Johnson eventually figured out how to make that lamp. We hope that Ducky moved on and found someone else. Unfortunately, the incels don't learn those lessons; they don't evolve and expect others to come to their level, believing themselves near the top of the mountain instead of their actual location in their parents' basement.The more significant issue that the other subsets I mentioned—white supremacists, evangelicals, Republicans—they're big mad because, for them, the result is that day in the future when whites are the majority *minority* in this country. If the marriage rate is declining, then the buried lede is that the birth rate is also declining, and I don't know what to tell you about that. You're talking about a culture there that would prefer to keep women stuck in the 1950s with none of the rights they enjoy today. That's not a John Hughes problem that's easily solved. I used to say that time and attrition would resolve this, but people like Nick Fuentes and Charlie Kirk exist in the world and are younger than I am. Time...

Al's drone went a little wonky, Cletus' Glock will solve everything, and another edition of The Kids Are Alright VB School Board Edition.

Back after a little time off in which I explain that poison should always remain the name of a 90's hair band and nothing you should accidentally do to yourself. Also, a dear family member left us recently, I take a minute to sing her praises. Finally, a little more about losing my way and trying to find my mojo again. If you need to know this kind of thing, I write and produce this monstrosity, and the music is supplied by Epidemic Sound, Click on the Epidemic Sound Link at krisroley.com for more details about that and about anything else I'm doing.

Today on the train wreck, you fit HOW many people in a Fiero? Also, The Kids are alright, DTF, and why I would never survive New York City. LINKS:Millennials NOT getting more conservative with agehttps://dailycaller.com/2022/12/30/millennials-conservative-age-analysis Kevin McCarthy is elected House speaker after 15 votes and days of negotiationshttps://www.npr.org/2023/01/06/1147470516/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-of-the-house-vote

Last Episode of 2022. No actual structure to this one really, just a stream of...something.

TOPICS:World Cup:  Proving once again that the USMNT can’t do jack diddly point shit.  So That HappenedTwitter FilesAlex Jones has to back away from YeGov. Sourpuss has to save a little face re: DisneyA Requiem For The Living (Toxic Families)Remember to like, share, review, slice, dice, chop, julienne, fold, splinter, mutilate, and head on over to krisroley.com for more of my flavor of crazy. Also, if you’re so inclined you can support that crazy on Patreon, link is at the website.  LINKS:https://apnews.com/article/us-eliminated-from-world-cup-netherlands-advances-504fcc7a5a1541bc3aefbd43cc1ff09chttps://www.axios.com/2022/12/03/musk-twitter-files-hunter-biden-story-banhttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-files-1234640842/https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/02/musk-leak-twitter-hunter-biden-files-00072015https://www.thebulwark.com/no-you-do-not-have-a-constitutional-right-to-post-hunter-bidens-dick-pic-on-twitter/https://time.com/4941261/amber-tamblyn-james-woods/https://www.mediaite.com/news/even-alex-jones-pushed-back-on-kanyes-rabid-anti-semitism-i-think-most-jews-are-great-people/https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/we-cant-let-the-governor-look-like-he-lost-desantis-reportedly-backing-down-from-plan-to-wreck-disneys-self-government-district/

Today on the train wreck: Creative UpdateThe Grand Old PerformanceSo That Happened...From the Wayback Machine: Roley's Black Friday Misadventure. Head on over to krisroley.com for more of my flavor of crazy, and if you’re so inclined you can support that crazy on Patreon, link is at the website.  LINKS:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kevin-mccarthys-performative-planned-constitution-stunt-torn-apart-by-law-expert/ar-AA14zaDs?li=BBnb7Kzhttps://www.republicanleader.gov/commitment/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_Americahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_to_Americahttps://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3750501-no-joke-this-supreme-court-case-could-take-a-big-bite-out-of-the-first-amendment/https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/27/tech/elon-musk-one-month-twitterhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11473455/Protests-erupt-China-thousands-streets-draconian-Covid-restrictions.htmlhttps://www.cnn.com/2022/11/26/middleeast/iran-supreme-leader-praises-crackdown-intl/index.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUeo36Vzkb8&t=20shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrYGiwhOuBo

Jason David Frank2022 MidtermsWorld Cup 2022LINKS:GorangerKikaidaRaideenRoboconAnimalympics

Topics:Housecleaning NotesCan we stop paying attention to the horserace now?AngertainmentA message for the low-info human. Connect with Roley on Twitter (for now) TikTok @krisroleyFollow me as I figure out Mastodon @[email protected], our home on the series of tubes, krisroley.com

Today on the abomination, Ditch Turtle Mitch gives up on the Senate, Florida is super special in So That Happened, Why is Andrew Yang in Stupid Pols Are Stupid, another edition of That One Teacher, and more.LINKS:SO THAT HAPPENED:https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118114568/florida-court-teen-abortion-immature-parental-consenthttps://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2022/08/12/sarasota-schools-library-book-purchases-donations-frozen/10307632002/https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/royal-bank-asking-employees-to-come-to-the-office-more-1.1806488?taid=62fbebb7cfeeb20001ba7573&utm_campaign=trueAnthem+Manual&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitterTHAT ONE TEACHER:https://www.donorschoose.org/project/theater-beyond-the-stage/6403072/EPIDEMIC SOUND:https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/frjwjeConnect with Kris on Twitter and TikTok @krisroley

Today on the trainwreck, if you thought doxxing the FBI Agents is a new thing, have I got news for you.  Things that happened, Stupid Pols are Stupid, and more assorted crap.LINKS:Stonekettle: Loose Lips Sink ShipsThe Zib's Misadventures In Spaaaaaace! Donors Choose: Mr. Myers, Columbia SC, Bean Bag Chairs.Connect with Roley on Twitter and TikTok @krisroley

After a minor rant about social media platforms and blog platforms, I tell y'all about one of the more unique places I've ever been. Links:Tangier IslandConnect with Roley @krisroley on most social media. Like ya do.

Many of you have responded to these episodes by asking if I'd tell y'all HOW TO FLIPPING FIND THE SHOW because I'm horrible at that. So, I start by doing that, and get totally derailed by Al and Bubba (as usual). You're welcome, Let us never speak of this again.Buh Bye Boris, mind the gap. How did CrimCrim the Chin-cel boy get radicalized? The same way a lot of young kids do, and I think I know part of that story. I end by remembering to tell y'all I have a Patreon that I've actually started using semi-daily. So that's a thing. Connect with the Roley Podcast at your catcher of choice by searching for Roley. Look for the doofus in shades, that would be me.Subscribe to the show on YouTube and see the trainwreck. Connect with me on social media @krisroleySearch for Kris Roley on Patreon for extra content. ...and krisroley.com.

A bit about coming out of the hole I've been in, Roe, and J6.  All the fuckery, all at once.

Had a lot of feedback about my Invisible Sky Buddy talk on the last episode, and a lot of folks wanted me to expand. I'll be happy to.

Every few years I have to do this show again because we're insane. Stop it. Stop it now.#podcast #uvalde #guns #2a #butmuhfreedom #stopit

I've dropped all my subscriptions for podcasting and YouTube, and there's practically nothing out there that holds my interest. 

In which Roley thinks one of his problems is spreading himself too thin. How about we do one thing well and not worry about the rest of it so much? Video version is here: https://youtu.be/g8dx3nko1yM

We all have our toys. Some of us buy guitars, or computers, or other shiny things. Some of us buy giant blue weiners to shoot into space. Some of us buy social media networks and troll the entire internet. Chill, people. Video version is here: https://youtu.be/-HyteeDXmsA

In which Roley follows up on this video from last week or so. I got a response that hit me differently, and it was much appreciated. Video version is here: https://youtu.be/1eeQNzzwivE