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I think she wants to change "FUCK" to "FVCK" in order of the Roman Numeral 5, which is the number of toes she wishes she had. When you can achieve two goals at once, you make it happen.

PBS had some great 1:1 or roundtable interview format news shows back in the day. I go back and watch some old footage and the hosts just didn't give fuck one about tip-toeing around. There's a great video at the Ransom Center e-archives of some former interns of Cronkite and Mike Wallace of CBS who took a lot of those two guys' approaches to interviews and made PBS an almost institution, but for that cliffdive of funding. But it was robust research teams, fact checking, and editorial freedom. Wild concepts in journalism these days. I don't remember if it was high school or college but we watched that "The Banks" doc/investigative piece. It, along with suburban sprawl, is what sparked so many regional and national branches opening up all around in America, EXCEPT in neighborhoods of colors. they needed to remind you at every corner and pad site that they were involved in your community and not being mean to the poors. The expanse of physical branches outside of CBD's goes on for about 35 years. And then, finally they get religion and start opening up more branches in underbanked neighborhoods all across America. Just in time for FinTech to take off and level the playing field (at least from an access and consumer empowerment standpoint, not necessarily loan results). Now a part of the reason 10 physical bank branches shut down every single day in the United States. No idea what the fuck we're do with those buildings. Head of JP Morgan Austin told me years ago, that main teller lane structure on West Sixth and Lavaca. They finally realized they made more money closing it and renting it out for parking than they did on the fees on any transactions occurring there (their in-office facility makes its nut per Ft.2). He proposed they take the savings on real estate shutdowns of several branches and directly pump it into small business loans in formerly underbanked communities in the form of lower interest rates/fees due to the savings. It was shot down, but stuff like that is a start. I think NPR is still doing great work on the news side and has some 'star power' for nerds like us. But that's another model that's gonna need to reinvent itself in a hurry to remain even slightly relevant.

Yeah, that dude on the right who looks like the stock image for a Spirit Halloween package can't be that fucking hard to identify. The dude on the left looks like every other fucking Aggie so he's gonna be a tougher get. But c'mon with the other guy. They had to have provided ID to either stadium security or OPD, so their names can be released/FOIA'd quite soon.

Ted, "Robert Morris? Never heard of him, never met the man and his wife for dinner and photographs. " Years ago, Ted needed the mega-church/evangelical of the Houston area for fundraising. There was pushback from the more prominent preachers and pastors to garner support for Cruz. Cruz bent over for them, and eventually got their support. Long story, but when Ted is asked about his relationship with Morris and his Gateway Church, whatever he says will be a lie.

You can draw a pretty clear delineation through Elvis' catalog. Straight out of the gate with great rock 'n roll. Little bit of gospel and americana thrown in there. Then the garbage years of those awful film soundtracks. "I'm a Roustabout" has to be his worst song by far, and that's saying something from that era. Then a third act with some great, new original material. But I've come in middle age to appreciate a gift most people don't recognize in Elvis later in his career. Yes, he could dance/perform, sing beautifully, and play a great guitar while doing it all. But he was not a gifted songwriter. At all. But he goes back in the very early 1970's to many of the underperforming tracks from his earlier studio/non-soundtrack albums. And he spends 18 months rearranging them, even changing their keys for his Las Vegas residence. And it blows people away. They came for the hits but the man was worn down by that point, but part of his brilliant reinvention is he reimagines how some of the lesser known songs can be re-crafted and discovers he has a completely separate musical talent he never really knew about or had to use. To agree with some other posts above. Aerosmith. Talented, great live performers. Their discography doesn't hold up for this after all these years. RHCP, while not considered "Classic Rock" maybe are a 42-year old band. That qualifies them nowadays, and their catalog sucks ass and has aged about as well as Mike Elko. Boston and Journey also suck ass and should have pulled over onto the shoulder about 30 years ago. The Who is a headscratcher. Still around, still a big draw when RD & PT tour. Their top 10-12 songs are still fantastic after all this time, but man---there is a steep dropoff in the quality of their deeper cuts. It is still one big band on my bucket list to see after all this time.

"Soundproofing panels"? For what? So Jonesy can't pick up, what he thinks sounded like singing, sir. That Sea of Japan access arrangement is not good though, Bob.

I'd like to give my sausage to Sweeney. Is that anything? Is there a code for that?

With all due respect to James McGil, Trump has heard of American Samoa because its law school where most of his attorneys attended school. I think his mind would be even more blown away to find out that the United State Virgin Islands are neither states nor full of virgins. And then he's informed of the Mariana Islands are not in fact islands made of red sauce, similar to ketchup.

Has that supposed racist recording ever been released/revealed/leaked? there are multiple people from the show, the campaign, and the administration who claim to have a copy or at least heard/listened to it. But here we are, just a few months out. I would release it out of patriotic duty, but it's not my place to judge their rationale to not show the details. If they're holding out for money, or a book deal, or paid talk show tour, I get it. But if you're gonna do it, around the nominating convention is the time. Though, I can't blame you for continuing to wring your hands because if your identity is revealed---you'll spend the next 20 years looking over your shoulder for some guy in a red hat getting out of an F-250 with a gun pointed at your head. You certainly had time before all this happened though, the best time to take down a cult leader is before he builds an milita.

Wow, that's quite disgusting. How fucking racist do you have to be to sign up to follow the WNBA online, then read through the whole Reese/Clark rivalry threads/chains. And then still be willing to use your real name to make ugly comments like this? While I feel all these racist shitheaps should be doxxed and humiliated and Reese treated with dignity. I also feel that some of this may blowback to Clark as in, "See what you've done to our sport. You're brought these bigots out of the woodwork to harass us." Welcome to post-2016 America. If there's something we can fuck up about women of all colors inspiring little girls of all colors to engage in team sports and goals, we will do it fantastically. Americans being assholes to one another about sports, the one thing that used to unite us...just in time for the International Olympiad. Great look USA, tremendous.

The clip starts out weird with comparing himself to Capone. Then gets just bleakly twisted when discussing Capone killing his ally Lindell at dinner. But then to tie it to burying him under the WTC, where the remains of thousands of people are still buried to this day? If I was loading that into the teleprompter, I'd just stop and take up smoking crack.

"Commander, buddy. I love you. We're gonna send you live on a great big pit, I mean farm, in South Dakota where you can run and play all day long." Yeah, at 20 bites...that's a big red flag. That's not a well dog, sorry Joe. At least Joe isn't a dipshit about it and claims, like asshole dog owners, "Oh, he's fine. He loves kids. He's never bitten anyone." I swear if I fucking hear that from one more fucking dog owning adult in Austin. Yeah, no dog ever bitten anyone until it bites someone. It'd be weird if you said, "Oh Scraps here? Yeah, he bites kids all the time. And hard, too. I don't even know why I bring him to playscapes in my van."

"Historic Heat Dome meets Gyre Dome Flooding! Here's what that means for the Caldera eruption refugees to the West. Back to Bob with Sports." Wife was talking to her parents about this. Her dad is a weather nut, having been in farming and cattle ranching in extreme weather for 50 years. And I heard her mom on speakerphone say, in one breath, these extreme weather events could signal a return of Jesus but that these extreme weather events are part of a perfectly normal cycle. And I realized there's millions of people that hold that cognitive dissonance in their heads. Can't wait to hear the researchers chime in on East Asiatic Typhoon hitting San Diego.

"March for the Animals" sounds like the off-shoot charity of "The Human Fund. Money for People."

So by the time the spread is finally contained, he will have basically killed 0.1%+ of a mid-sized island nation? His Uncle Ted isn't even mad, he's kind of impressed. He only killed one person on an island that size. MSM: "Here's how this could hurt Joe Biden this November."

What the fuck? I just glanced on another site and thought, "Oh okay, he was inside and is now going back to preach to other prisoners---that's cool." But then you see it's for predatory child sex abuse, and the church's first thought was to have him run their youth program as well? Plus, you know every time he goes to the prisons to counsel, he opens with, "I know what it's like to be inside. I was in for over a year and still on parole." And they usually ask "for what?" And he says he's a convicted sex offender. Gonna be a shame when somebody in the prayer circle next to him learns about this.

Well this thread has officially jumped the Electric Shark. Let's get it back on track, lots going on. For instance, does anybody know a reliable news outlet that has outlined the rules/details for next week's debates? Fox basically says, "Doesn't matter, Trump is gonna run circles around Biden as usual." But they don't about format or rules. And CNN's position, "The debate may not end until after 10:00p and Trump is used to staying up to post things until well after midnight. Here's why this could hurt Joe Biden." That's another weird thing about Trump's administration. Is between his tweet timestamps, the truncated PDB/DNI meetings, and his publicly available schedule each day. You could see that "Yeah, he was up late presumably fake 'working'." But unless he was seen golfing or traveling, 2/3rds of the time---there was virtually nothing between lunch and 9:00p. I mentioned this to a MAGA friend and he said, "Well, maybe he was in the SitRoom, ever think of that? They don't make that public." Yeah uh, if he was spending 8 waking hours a day in the underground SitRoom for 3 years during relative peacetime...I think that's kind of a red flag by itself.

Yes, because the man on the grill should wait until they're almost done, then melt the cheese over them, place them in the wrapper, into the BK bag, and drop them off at the White House for an official Championship dinner. They have some coloring to them, they're not "raw", but yeah-I would have waited a few more minutes before doing the cheese. I would have chosen to pick on what is really annoying about that grill arrangement is who the fuck places their eyeglasses on a dirty, wooden cutting board? That has pink eye written all over it tomorrow morning. But these are the hard-hitting issues of the most pivotal election system since the Civil War. When do you add the cheese that's the same color as the convicted felon running against Chuck's party? Chuck missed a chance to pivot the conversation by putting messy ketchup on the hot dogs, mid grill, and said, "Oh my bad, I thought Trump was coming over but he's busy battling Electric Sharks."

So the crazy guy from "The Four Seasons" is celebrating a "Season of White Boys", in this case Summer. I suspect during election season, a "White Boy Fall" will be announced, with any sense of irony? Followed by violent, pouty outbursts in "White Boy Winter." What the fuck happened to this guy?

Well yes, there are massive gulches between different parts of a state in terms of geography, demography, and culture. But Memphis and Knoxville are still all in 'the South.' I think Texas is unique, obviously because of its vastness of size and people...actually belongs to 4 uniquely different "regions" of the United States. No other state really has more than maybe 2. Yes, they have cities and areas within their own borders, but nationally speaking, they're part of just the one region. Boston is way different than far West Massachusetts, but it's all still "New England." Chicagoland is extraordinarily different than down-state, but it's all still the Midwest. Inland California compared to the coastal cities, night and day...but it's still the all 'The West' A line from New Mexico to Lubbock to Wichita Falls, everything north of that in our borders has way more in common with the Great Plains than it does with the rest of Texas. El Paso with the Southwest. And much of East Texas with the Deep South. And the rest of Texas basically being just "The South." Yes, it's all Texas. No part of it is less than. But it's a much larger divide than just New Orleans is different than Shreveport.

Brings back a lot of awkward memories. Never booked Cincinnati, but now I'm remembering how baffled she was when I insisted on Reagan Int'l over Dulles, but when she's enter 'Washington, D.C.', the default was Dulles and I had to explain "Just manually enter DCA." And she was like "Oh, like Dulles Commercial Airport?" Dammit Natalie, I'll be there in a few minutes to walk you through it. I swear if I hadn't gotten my own travel card, I would have asked her for "SMF" to see LP's in Sacramento/Napa. And she would have asked "The Smurfs have an airport?" She's lucky she lives in Austin/AUS otherwise she'd never make it out of state alive.

Well considering what happened to his head, your coffee cup was probably 3x the size of Cobain's actual face. The Doors were original in their initial blending of 'beach rock', psychedelic rock, and blues. I listened to them a lot and played them on my radio show in the early 90's. Likely due to their resurgence after the movie came out. But it's been 25 years since I listened to one of their songs all the way through. their concept just didn't hold up well, at all. I'm burned out on Southern Rock like Doobie Bros, Allman Bros, et. al.

Why do the stupidest people never learn that the neuron energy they expend coming up with these conspiracy theories and excuses and victim cards is actually harder than just critically examining the facts and reaching a logical conclusion? They're like an unfunny version of Joliet Jake, "We were framed. Longhorns dressed up as Aggies. It was a setup, a sting. There was a plague, locusts. We ran outta gas! You gotta believe us! We have honor!"

Shooter McGavin, "You eat dicks for Dinner? I thought my breakfast choice was bad." TwiceHorn---given the new, slightly harsher facility, do you still think he'll serve his full sentence or will they dilute it a bit given the change of venue (prison, not court)?

My brother has a business partner who knows about this guy and mentioned him awhile back about the dude being unhinged. Brother is just North of Peoria. But once you get south of Peoria down to the capital of Springfield...it gets real fucking weird. Though different species of trees and accent, it reminds me a lot of far East Texas. Lotta 'compounds' and Trump flags and more gun shows than dentists. My brother loves to bow-hunt but doesn't like going to that area because even though he's very safe and careful, he just gets the feelings that if you encroach on just the fenceline of the wrong guy's land, he'll open fire and drag your body onto his land. You take out Peoria and the immediate suburbs, which are fairly educated and affluent...the county way outkicked its coverage in Covid-19 deaths. I'm guessing due to dipshits like this convincing their neighbors not to take precautions/get vaccinated.