What the FUCK is wrong with you!!??!?
Monday, June 16, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2524, plus some thoughts
Monday, June 9, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2523, and what we know now (Los Angeles edition)
Monday, June 2, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2522, some new (kinda) music, and thoughts about the day.
New music this week from Peach Fuzz, Ben Caplan, John Fogerty (sort of), Ministry (also sort of), Wet Leg, Lorde, Sunsick Daisy, Ty Segall, Garbage, Moptop, KennyHoopla, Beth Sarah and much more. Enjoy!
A couple of notes about this week's music starting with John Fogerty. Earlier this year he finally, finally, was able to get the rights to all of the music he wrote during the Credence days back. What happened to him is a cautionary tale to any songwriter - but for 50 years people made money off his work and he didn't get a dime. That has finally been fixed.
Fogerty has been re-recording his Creedence Clearwater Revival catalogue with his sons as the backing band, and he's going to start releasing them as "John's Version" - the first of which came out this week. This includes my favorite CCR song, "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" but also included a song I didn't even know, which I've added to the playlist this week. More to come. I hear through the grapevine (I see what you did there) that he actually lobbied his record label to call these re-recording "Taylor's Version" but the idea was shot down.
That would have been hilarious.
You will also see the same sort of thing happening with Ministry. When they evolved into an Industrial/Noise Metal band I really didn't follow along - I much preferred their synth-pop work from their early days. Well they too have re-recorded some of their old catalog (including "Every Day is Halloween") and are calling it "The Squirrely Years". This gives me the excuse to add a couple of my favorite Ministry songs to the playlist and call it new music.
My playlists, my rules.
Finally, it's worth your time to check out the back catalog of the band Moptop. The new album they have coming soon will be in English, but this is their 5th album - they're from Brazil and their previous albums are of course in Portuguese. Get past the language barrier - they're a good alt-pop band, and like I said, their new material is in English and if I hadn't told you that they're from South America you'd have never noticed.
As I always say, there is great music out there, but you need to search for it. That's what I do.
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Dan Bongobongo (or whatever the fuck his name is) was hired as Deputy Director of the FBI, and now he's been bitching to his TV and Radio/Podcast friends that it's a difficult job. No shit, Sherlock.
We've put a bunch of Monday Morning Quarterbacks in charge of real work, and all of a sudden they're discovering that they're not qualified (or worse think that they are) and that the job of being an actual quarterback is fucking hard. Hey, if they could actually do the hard work they wouldn't have been on Television in the first place.
Does anyone out there know what trauma Governor Gavin Newsom has experienced that has made him swing so far right these past few months? If it turns out that he's only doing it as an opportunistic grab towards a Presidential bid I will be greatly disappointed. Although I don't wish him harm and prior to now he's been a good Governor, it's the only explanation I would find acceptable.
Therapy Gavin. Seek therapy, please.
Because if it's the other thing I will point out that the Left doesn't win by heading towards the center. It's the Center that wins when they swing Left. It's not the Clinton years anymore.
Look, it's never been a secret that Elon Musk is a stoner. Why does everyone get all up in arms about it? He smokes pot all the time - it is well documented - and his use of Special K is pretty well established as well.
I love it when Republicans get pissed off about Democrats using the same tactics that they've been using for years. "It’s got to be hard to keep track of your political positions when you have no moral center and just attach yourself to the most powerful person in the room."
I will also add that it must be tough to get into the Heaven you keep raving about when you bear false witness so very goddamned much.
ICE has quotas to fill, so the stories are only going to get worse.
As frustrating as it is that the media isn't doing a damned thing to point out that the new/old guy is clearly in mental decline, it's even more frustrating to admit that they reason they're doing it is that they are far more scared of the idea of a President Vance.
I don't eat popcorn, but I do admit that the sudden civil war between the new/old guy and Leonard Leo is pretty entertaining.
What happened in Colorado last week is terrible, and yes it is a hate crime and even possibly terrorism. So what are you calling what's happening in Gaza right now?
Bravo to Ukraine for pulling off the attack of the decade (so far) with the demolition of so much of Russia's Air Force, so far away from the border the two countries share. Whatever your position on the war is, you must admit that this was pulled off with Jack Ryan precision and accuracy.
You know, for a political party that made its bones on the idea that government should have no say in how we raise our children the Republican Party sure seems to want to have a fuckton of control over how we raise our children.
I'm sure that Elon's satellites dropping out of the sky is a feature, not a bug.
I leave you now to go feed the Rainbow Beast. Happy Pride!
And because I love you, there is a real video now for Ministry's biggest early hit:
Monday, May 26, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2521, and happy Memorial Day.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Contemptable
So with all of the distractions and directions everything is going all at once a little nugget got slipped into the "Big Beautiful Bill" that the Republicans are trying to get through congress. It would prohibit courts from using any funding whatsoever to enforce Contempt of Court citations against Federal Officials.
While news organizations left and right are "scaling back the rhetoric" or self-censuring their words and deeds, the single greatest threat to our system of checks and balances the country has ever seen is attempting to become law.
We need better swear words, because the current set we're using just aren't cutting it.
I know of no mainstream media outlets that are covering this, but it's real. Even the motherfucking CATO Institute noticed it.
Oh, and the bill is retroactive too. This means that they can leave that poor man stranded in Venezuela because the court won't have a mechanism to enforce the order.
Let me make it simpler for you - this is setting up the Executive branch to have the ability to ignore the Judicial branch. If they don't do what the court says, the courts can still hold them in Contempt, but they can't enforce it.
The tripod that is our form of government, with three equal branches of government making up the legs that support the whole institution, will have one of the legs shortened. The stool will fall.
I'm going to say it right fucking now: If this becomes law, and if this stays on the books, this country will fall. The grand experiment will be a failure. all because this country couldn't coalesce behind a woman of color. Or maybe even just a woman at all.
Can you even picture anymore how ordinary our lives would be if Kamala Harris had become President? How much less stressful this would all be? Yeah, sure, make a big fucking deal out of Biden's supposed health issues of the time. You fucking idiots swung for the center when you should have swung LEFT.
You keep saying that you can't elect someone President without the support of the center, but I'm saying you can't elect the center without the support of the left. The right stopped moving back towards the center over 4 decades ago and it's time you fucking recognized that.
They don't want to live in the same country as the left. They want us gone, one way or another, and until you recognize that there is no peace to be made here you just can't win.
You don't make peace with Hitler. You kick his ass. I know there are only a few veterans left from World War II to give you firsthand accounts but look at all the fucking movies we made! You've watched some of them, haven't you?
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I don't know about you, but I need a break after that. I'll give you a few minutes here, with my latest video and song. Once you have the visual in your head, go ahead and close your eyes and just listen and relax, if you can.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2520, plus a few thoughts
Monday, May 12, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2519, Jill Sobule's final song, RFK Jr is a fucking idiot and more
New music from Sub-Radio (whose album finally dropped!), Tetrarch, Sam Roberts Band, I'm With Her, Cypress Hill, Unwed Sailor, kid moon, Liam Finn, Little Feat, Molly Miller Trio, Elbow, The Amazons, Ainsley Costello and much more. Enjoy!
Sometimes I get queries from artists about how I decide what's going on my playlists and how do they get on them. The simple answer is that I have to find you. You can't buy your way on, and I have no idea why you'd want to. While I do heavily focus on brand new stuff there are other criteria as well. But sometimes, every once and a while, a slight bit of nepotism can creep in. Track 47 on this list is by Cameron Esther and it's her debut single. She's the daughter of a guy I knew in college and have seen a few times since.
But it wouldn't end up on the playlist if I didn't like it.
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So in an interview yesterday RFK Jr. said during an
interview that "Only very sick kids should die of measles." That's
the exact quote.
No, you elitist fuck monkey.
No one should die from measles. No one.
Ever. We cured the fucking thing. We created a situation where no one caught
the disease anymore. No one died, and no one got sick.
Not until people stopped vaccinating their kids.
You didn't get measles. I didn't get measles. Although we
grew up on opposite sides of the country, although you grew up wealthy and I
did not, I know for certain that the reason for this is that you, me and
everyone we both knew got vaccinated. Every state in the
nation made vaccinations mandatory to attend school - both public and private.
And measles was gone. GONE. Motherfucking gone.
How about we don't let kids, or anyone else for that matter,
get sick in the first place? It's easy, proven to work not just in the US but
all around the world, and until you fucking idiots came along it was paid for
by the government, as part of the common good.
People don't get religious exemptions from laws and lawsuits
because giving anyone such a thing not only creates separate classes in this
country, but is against the common good for everyone - that we all can pursue
happiness. People shouldn’t' get a religious exemption for vaccines either.
And for the record, it has been proven over and over again
that vaccines have NOTHING to do with autism. People who say that are LYING.
They have been told a lie, and are spreading it around.
Kinda like measles.
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I think it's worth pointing out that American Nazi Stephen
Miller is counting on you not knowing that the Executive
Branch doesn't have the authority to suspend habeas corpus. I don't think that
gets taught universally anymore.
If Obama, Biden, or Clinton had accepted a gift as extravagant
as an airplane there would be congressional hearing from here until doomsday,
as there should be. This is a crime. a real, demonstratable crime. Who gave
congress the hand job so that they'd shut up about it?
Also, if you don't think that airplane is full of listening
devices then you're a fucking idiot.
By the way RFK Jr., why don't we start substituting the word
"Kennedy" for the word "autism" every time you talk down to
them?
Can people stop going on any show hosted by Bill Maher? Please, it's embarrassing.
Remember when "Box Wine" Pirro conspired to place listening devices on her husband's yacht in an effort to catch him having an affair? Good times, good times.
Having an agreed framework for creating a trade deal and calling it a trade deal is the same as producing an empty sheet tray and saying you have cookies.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is sending signals that FDA will likely not authorize a COVID-19 booster vaccine this year for children, and perhaps not for the general population as a whole, saying he “cannot, in good faith” recommend booster vaccination for children. How about in bad faith? I'll take them in bad faith. I'll take a COVID booster regardless of your faith.+++++++++++++++++
And because I love you, here is the late Jill Sobule's final song:
Monday, May 5, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2518, some thoughts on things
Monday, April 28, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2517, tariffs, and a couple of notes
Monday, April 21, 2025
Radio Free California 2516, and I'm not Catholic but I have a story
Monday, April 14, 2025
Radio Free California Episode 2415 and some thoughts about where we are now.
By the way, when someone says to your face, ""In fact Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate. But to liberate 350 million people you have to imprison some." You are supposed to punch that Nazi in the face. But you didn't even mention getting the guy you sent to his prisons illegally back.
On Jan. 20, the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Fox News Media placed four people “in complete isolation in upstate New York, with no contact to the outside world — no phones, internet, television, or social media.”
Ninety days later, those four people will come out of their cocoon, but before learning about what happened in the world over the past three months, they have to get through Greg Gutfeld.