Schedule

Past

• What are the Odds w/ Baris:
  
• Barnes Brothers Return:
  

Future

• Friday at 9ish pm eastern: Betting w/ Barnes: Super Bowl Preview
• Saturday Night at 9 pm eastern: Movie TBD
• Monday at 9 pm eastern: Viva & Barnes, Law For the People

Book Recommendation: Dallas ’63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House. Peter Dale Scott, the lefty writer, originated the term Deep State in 1969 with this text from the fun Forbidden Bookshelf series.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26833392-dallas-63

Art of the Day: The Cigar Study, a future dream project when the time accompanies the aspiration. The deep, rich leather chairs, the scent of a good cigar, the old cognac bottles on the shelf, and the friendly conversation in the old school style. A kind of high end, stylish man cave connected to the lounges and studies of centuries ago. A perfect venue for a Bourbon w/ Barnes, Pappy’s 23 preferred. The integration of the aesthetic exterior to the thoughtful interior.

Wisdom of the Day: “Tobacco is the plant the converts thoughts into dreams.” Victor Hugo.

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Schedule

Past

• Shroyer Interview

Future

• Betting w/ Barnes

Book Recommendation: Why Nations Fail https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12158480-why-nations-fail?

Art of the Day: Night Warning, a poem by my sister referenced in my eulogy.

Tears are falling

From Heaven tonight

Cry for the homeless

Cry for the finite

Listen to the silent

Prodding to unite

In the pale moonlight

For death will have come

And gone at midnight

Stop while you can

Look for the light

Don’t sell your soul

For your birthright

Whispering Angels

Say Goodnight.

Wisdom of the Day: "Just Martha It." Coworkers of my sister, Martha. 

The Library

1. RFK Hearing: Democrats Destroy Themselves
2. Tulsi challenges Deep State
3. Kash’s cinematic debut
4. Nominee success
5. DOJ FBI firings
6. Peace possibilities
7. Trump alternatives
8. Democratic disarray
9. Education disaster
10. DEI died

Top 10 Cases TBD Sunday

1. FBI Frameup
2. FISA Unconstitutional
3. New Orleans Sued
4. 2^nd Amendment Win
5. Bureaucrats Sue Trump
6. Democrats Sue Trump
7. Sanctuary City Sued
8. Right to Teach at Beach
9. AI Copyright
10. Porn Copyright Trolls

Closing Argument: My Eulogy for My Sister

• Martha was the best of us, and always will be. My Whispering Angel is gone, but lives on in all that knew her.
• I lay on the couch uncontrollably in distress when my sister Martha came into the living room. She asked what was wrong. I explained my life was over. She inquired gently why. I explained that the love of my life, Amy Davidson, was leaving. As she consoled me, she reminded me of critical context: I was 8 years old. As my young mind pondered it and reflected upon her proverbial wisdom, I realized maybe she was right; maybe my life wasn’t over quite yet.
• I owe my success in life to her. As a teenager, she went to bat for me, believing in me beyond my own self-belief. She lobbied David Brock, of the candy company, to enroll me at the elite local private school as an 11^thgrader with a full scholarship. I only found out later no student had ever been given a scholarship so late at the school. But her insistence couldn’t be denied, and she got me that scholarship. Unsurprising since as a five-year old, her little notes left in my Dad’s shoes to stop smoking convinced him to stop, likely extending his life by a decade or more, and giving me the chance to know him before his passing when I was 11. She then made a desk for me out of plywood and file cabinets, though no one knew her to be a carpenter by trade. It’s still my favorite desk to this day. I only survived because of her. After my Dad died, she went to work on double shifts and triple shifts at difficult jobs to make sure we could afford to stay in the home we lived.
• She knew this community well, often gave me feedback on issues and topics, and truly appreciated this community’s concerns for her. A few months back, as she lay in a hospital bed aware she may not make it much longer, she took the time to call me as I lay in a hospital bed to encourage me. That is who she always was: encouraging us to seek the better angels of our nature, to care for family, to look out for friends, and to be our best selves. Her incorrigible smile put your heart at ease. Her coworkers turned her name into a verb: to solve a problem, to help someone in distress, to champion a cause against long odds – that was to “Martha” the problem. “Just Martha It.”
• She was the best of us, and always will be. My Whispering Angel is gone, but lives on in all that knew her. Remember the next time you face distress, difficulty or long odds, to Just Martha It.

Schedule: Past & Prospective

• What Are The Odds:
  
• Friday LIVE at 9 pm eastern: Betting w/ Barnes https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/6270714/betting-w-barnes-friday-october-25-2024
• Saturday Movie: Halloween Movie, Scary or Fun, TBD
• Sunday: Law for the People w/ Viva

Art of the Day: The pride of skill, the mastery of craft, the aesthetic of labor as the anesthetic answer to a commodified, corporatized, dehumanized life imagined for the working class by distant elites. The deindustrialization of America damaged the soul of America, as it replaced empowering honest labor with numbers on a balance sheet of a bureaucratized, soul-lobotomized number-cruncher. Rebalancing the productive economy requires respecting honest work that produces real and tangible value beyond dollars and cents.   

Book Recommendation: Working class rebellion of the 1970s. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8614946-stayin-alive?

Wisdom of the Day: “Work is just living out the script to Office Space. We don’t devalue work; work devalues us.” Gen Z worker explaining the antipathy of the Gen Z to the modern workplace.

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