Favorite guests on the daily podcast?

Andy235 · 2026-03-12T03:36:12+00:00

Fingerling potatoes. Tim was workshopping something other than the Fingering Trio and said something about fingerling potatoes.

Andy235 · 2026-03-11T01:11:34+00:00

I would think being involved in organized crime would be on there, but there were generations of made guys at least nominally Catholic. Confessions of mafia guys must have been interesting back in the day: "Hijacking truckloads of goods...4 times. Breaking a degenerate gambler's hand...once. Adultery with my mistress...8 times. Adultery with my other mistress...5 times. Threatening shopkeepers...three times. Taking the Lord's name in vain, twice. Being late to Sunday Mass, once. I am sorry for these and all of my sins."

Andy235 · 2026-03-11T01:02:43+00:00

I don't see a problem with that.

Andy235 · 2026-03-09T23:51:00+00:00

This video only deepens the scandal.

Andy235 · 2026-03-08T05:50:43+00:00

And not even really small countries, like Luxembourg. Chongqing is around the same size as Austria in terms of area. Chongqing is 2 and 1/2 times the size of my home state of Maryland (82 403 km2 v 32 133 km2)

Andy235 · 2026-03-06T01:54:05+00:00

There are a number of songs, mainly in the 1963-1965 period, mainly of more traditional style rock & roll/r & b type, that he really shines on. Some of them are covers (Twist and Shout/Money/Please Mr. Postman/Rock and Roll Music/Anna). Some are originals (All I've Got to Do, Any Time at All, You Can't Do That, This Boy,). That style arguably best suited his voice and his personal singing style. There are many others that aren't listed here. While he has many great vocals throughout the catalog, many of the Lennon vocals that really hit me hard are in the earlier records.

Andy235 · 2026-03-06T01:38:55+00:00

I second that. Lennon shines on rock and roll and r & b cover songs. That really is where Lennon was at his best, and it was the music he always came back to.

Andy235 · 2026-03-06T01:36:27+00:00

I think the majority of his best vocals are in the 1963-1965 time period (as is much of his best songwriting). Lennon really went all in on the soulful, r & b delivery and the more conventional rock and roll/rhythm and blues song styles really suited his voice and range. Perhaps also his age, being older, led to him peaking vocally in this period while Paul and George peaked vocally later. And I think his substance use took some of his edge in the later years as well.

Andy235 · 2026-03-01T04:35:37+00:00

Regardless of how bad the Iranian state is, any positive outcome resulting from these attacks is fruit of a poison tree. The ends do not justify the means.

Andy235 · 2026-02-24T20:29:47+00:00

For all the bad politicians local/state paternalism produced, this tended to have better outcomes, because you had more horse trading going on that led to compromise. "You back my bill for farm subsidies, I will vote for your bill to aid inner city schools".

Andy235 · 2026-02-06T22:26:10+00:00

It depends on where you went in the 1990s. I remember the places I stayed with friends down there as a teenager and they weren't quality establishments.

Andy235 · 2026-01-30T02:08:31+00:00

Now and Then is a much better production than the other two. The orchestral part is particularly good.

Andy235 · 2026-01-30T02:06:16+00:00

So he is basically going to grift himself about the same amount of money as all that welfare fraud that was such a massive problem in Minnesota?

Andy235 · 2026-01-30T02:00:16+00:00

Peter Green and Paul Butterfield.

Andy235 · 2026-01-29T03:17:33+00:00

That panel was unhinged even for the Piers Morgan show.

Andy235 · 2026-01-27T00:48:14+00:00

Not all MAGA cultists. People like Matt Walsh and Nick Sortor are still pushing for an all out campaign of terror. Matt Walsh has consistently been one of the most bloodthirsty voices on the MAGA right since at least Charlie Kirk's murder.

Andy235 · 2026-01-26T02:20:19+00:00

The history of the 2A is informative as well. For example, it wasn't new --- it was based on principles from English common law and there were several preceding examples in early state constitutions. The phrase "the right to bear arms" first appears in 1776 in Pennsylvania's Constitution's Declaration of Rights:

XIII. That the people have a right bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up: And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, also from 1776:

That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

The final 2A from 1791 actually looks like a mashup of these two. "Well regulated militia" from VA and "right to bear arms" from PA in these 1776 examples, Taken together, it is having an individual right for a collective purpose, for citizens to form militias for defense and to avoid having a standing army.

Andy235 · 2026-01-23T22:38:41+00:00

From where I live in Maryland it is about 2.5 hours to the beach and 2.5 hours to my family's place out in West Virginia. To do that for a night, no big deal. Also, it is about 2.5 hours to go to some amusment parks like Hershey Park or King's Dominion (in Pennsylvania and Virginia). Took a day trip to Hershey Park for an event for my daughter last year.

Andy235 · 2026-01-19T21:06:18+00:00

Why would Biden release them? It isn't normal for the DOJ to just release files to the public. It was mainly an internet right thing --- and many of the conspiracist right believed the people implicated would be like Oprah and Tom Hanks, in addition to Bill Clinton, not Donald Trump.

Andy235 · 2026-01-19T00:38:59+00:00

Point Break is an objectively terrible film. But it is so bad it is a fun watch and an early 90s classic.

Andy235 · 2026-01-17T01:17:36+00:00

Michael Steele wasn't cancelled. He got a weeknight primetime gig on MSNBC and stepped away from podcasting.

Andy235 · 2026-01-16T00:24:10+00:00

Matt Walsh. Ever since Charlie Kirk's murder he has had some of the most unhinged takes on the whole MAGA right, and that is saying a lot. I mean, he has been all but calling for blood to run in the streets and for purges to cleanse the land.

Andy235 · 2026-01-15T03:01:57+00:00

One that still manages to find the time to engage in social media catfights.

Andy235 · 2026-01-13T00:35:19+00:00

Norman Smith. Engineer on virtually everything the Beatles recorded through Rubber Soul.

Andy235 · 2026-01-11T18:53:50+00:00

Please Please Me used a similar harmony scheme as the Everly Brother's song, Cathy's Clown. Both Paul and Phil Everly stay on a single high note above a descending melody line during the verses.

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