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Yeah, I don’t I’ve been doing this like zero prep
I’m just like okay, I have an idea and then I hit record and then I forget what that idea is
All right, this is
Republic today Republic today dot net
I’m
recording this
from the Empire State
Today is August 15th
2026 it’s
443 p.m. On the clock
Eastern time here in the Republic of the United States of America
Republic today is a
Audio Journal
podcast
where I
talk about how I
Wanted to be a podcaster at some point I
Guess as opposed to read articles about what might be going on
In oh
How about that that I don’t know if that’s ever happened on a republic today
I
Computer noises beep-bloop-blop-bloop
So that’s this is the liest one yet y’all
You know, I don’t actually I’m I’m doing the throat clearing thing
More than I would just in in person in real life. I could at least warm up my voice. I could focus
for like I
Mean god forbid a few minutes
30 seconds before I hit record and then forget what I was gonna talk about. I do want to send some shots out
I’m gonna say some things out loud and and hopefully they will
Translate into me doing some work on the website Republic today dot net
I’ve done a little bit of work on it, which I haven’t done in years and years not years, you know
on and off for a long time
so
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Thank you, I
Don’t endorse any of the social media that I have linked to it right now
in fact, I’ve you know, I should probably take that off, I don’t know I
Podcasts audio journals streaming audio journals are
Digital by nature, right that’s
Me I mean had the internet
Had the internet not come along the I
Would have auditioned for some more or auditioned or you know showed up at radio stations and just said hey
I want to do your
Drive home, man. Let’s do it. I like the drive home. I’m not a morning person, but
Hey, let’s talk. Let’s talk while you’re stuck in traffic while you’re driving from
Downtown to Hilton
We are on your
5 p.m. Drive from I don’t know why my radio voice is crossed over with the pilot voice
stereotype lately when I’m
Joking around with my partner
Joking around with my partner
So
Let me do more of a radio drive. Oh, yeah, right. So this is like, you know peak amateur bad podcasting
Thank you for tuning in. I did I really did have an idea. I
Can’t remember it but at least
The shoutouts. I’m a fan of the Tim Miller show the bullwark
podcast I
Don’t agree with Miller
I mean, I don’t I probably agree with him as much or more than other
Democrats conservatives whatever that kind of
liberal
lives the lives, you know, I
He’s super likable and that’s like part of civilized society is that people?
Like if you’re not in a cold civil war, which we are right now
So
That’s a point. I’d like to get out there. I think that’s what that’s what inspires me to record. I’m
Doing something in my apartment and I’m like, oh, I you know, I have time right now, but also I
Thought about and today was just that thought of like at least I’m you know, I’m trying to do some good so I
don’t
Like I I was thinking about dr. King and how non-violence as a
as a principal, I don’t how did I
Should read I should read a book about how property damage is this property damage kind of violence. Well at at
What because our people gonna assault others to protect property is that okay
You know, or do you just have to let someone set your store on fire or whatever it is
The kind of the written house
Situation
Do you
If it’s your if it’s your house if it’s your home
But like what if it’s a corporation’s
You know front door and
And
Someone’s gonna throw a rock at it. Can they just have like well, it’s some big corporation
They just somebody shoots the rock thrower, right and that’s something I’ve been thinking about like in America
I can say the president’s name over and over right he likes that but I could say a different president’s name over and over
President Vance, I don’t know. Maybe he probably
he probably preferred to but
You know, I don’t think I could do this in Russia
Right. I could I say Russia’s guy’s name
What about Israel? I I guess there are people in Israel that are like they’ll say
They’ll say his name and not just catch bullets
But it seems like if you’re speaking out against leaders in some countries you just catch bullets
What is that North Korea? I don’t want to say anything
What do we hear I mean China, I guess is China like that
It’s Scandinavia not like that
What about the Middle East what Iran in Iran?
It or Afghanistan or Persia or whatever like in the Middle East
Jordan Syria. I
Already mentioned Israel
Egypt Morocco
What a excuse me for clearing my throat again the Congo, I mean
Sudan they it seems like there’s lots of like political violence
So but but I’m so privileged and grateful that I’m from the United States of America
Because that like I’m I’m allowed I could walk down. I’m now
Walk down them now I can make a cardboard sign and it could say down with the president
And i’m not saying anything about violence, but like
You know elect the opposition in 2028. I mean I can’t in 26
I can’t I find it so hard to and I know I know it’s there’s only two parties. It’s that’s the problem
um, but to support
The like the chairman of the DNC like
How does how does that person?
Become the chairman of the DNC. I’m not saying any names today. Well, I don’t no promises because it’s just a babbling audio journal, but
Um, how did that guy even get his job?
Like I mean, I don’t I can say that with such like I could never do that
Right. I could never be the chairman of the DNC. So I don’t know like
I guess I’m more surprised or frustrated or ranting
About how
In inept the
Democratic party is like the apparatus the the leadership
Um couldn’t find like why not get someone who’s like really dynamic and
Um shows great results like how about it doesn’t matter what they look like
How about it’s just like a number on a piece of paper, but like
Things things go well communications are unified. Uh, there’s you know, whatever, uh
a platform that
brian curtis
Could just like read in a sentence or two
a sentence or two
a sentence or two
That like sums up
Why people should be positive about you?
Um
Um
So even if it’s a contrast statement with that second sentence, you know
Saying what you’re not give me that first sentence, you know, you’re not
bigoted
That that’s your first sentence and and the second sentence is that you’re not bigoted, but what is that first sentence?
Um
That you’re fighting for you. You’re pointing at you
exclamation point
Is that is it is it your uncle sam
fighting for you
Like what does that mean?
It means nothing
So
They they need to be say we’re fighting for
Organized labor and for more people to be
In organized labor. We’re fighting to get more like union memberships up. We want
60 70 percent of the workforce
More you know, we want as much as possible of the workforce to be
labor
To be organized in unions
Why don’t they say something like that? We want we want to get it to be
But first we’re aiming for 50 percent, you know, we’re starting there and then and then we’ll see but like union jobs should be
Not just tied to
a metric
from a centralized
Uh almost monopoly
For uh, ultimately centralizes someone whose fortune is big enough
to
Hold sway over a local government
A local government
So it might just be my local billionaire
That
Is is in charge is the ism right is the ism
Uh capital ism, right the capital
Because yeah, that’s he’s he’s the one he or she they them is the person who is going to
Tell the the mayor the county the city council
The county legislator the county executive all these people
Uh, it’s machine politics. I guess here as far as I know
In new york’s 25th
How they’re gonna allocate
Um police spending so maybe it’s on pensions and training
uh, but maybe it’s also on
Vehicles weapons
Uniform kind no bid contracts, you know, no bid contracts
It sounds so silly. It sounds so businessy, but
It just obviously makes sense that you have to have
a transparent
Process when it comes to government contracting why like it should just be very transparent like the whole world should know
It doesn’t mean it has to be slow and it doesn’t mean things. Um
Like everything, you know everything about everyone whatever it’s not the government running it if it’s private contractors
But like
The government everyone should be aware like all con if if someone could do the same job for cheaper
Be more efficient have shown more competency on the resume then they should be able to bid for government contracts
And there should be a transparent process in terms of all of that
public to private spending
Um money going from taxpayers into capital into capital
um redistributing tax money from
Yes from rich people also from middle class people also from working class people
I mean the absolute impoverished people probably aren’t paying a lot in taxes
But that’s still, you know
millions of people
uh of
millions and millions of working class people paying taxes
To then be given, you know paid out in
Contracts to the the big businesses that are making their lives
more expensive
That they’re not
Transitioning as technology changes you can still let
The actual changes happen slow enough so someone can finish out a career someone can retire with a pension
someone doesn’t have to you know, we’re
When obama was in the uh, you know, like the oh eight election cycle primaries and stuff like he appealed
To
Hey, what are we doing factory workers because he would talk about current factory workers
We need to retrain them get them into jobs i’m very much paraphrasing
I’m not endorsing anybody’s economic
I’m endorsing brian curtis’s interview style, but i’m not
endorsing
um any past president’s economic
policies or campaign promises or anything
Clinton would change the subject. No. No, we’re talking about young people. We got to change the
we got to change the
Educational system for young people I said, but what about middle-aged people who are working in a factory and get laid off because the economy changes
What about all of the middle management information administration people who computers then the internet now ai
Is just decimating their jobs
And like I say decimating is such a dramatic word, but these numbers go down down down
There’s fewer and fewer jobs for the skills that people acquire over years
And
as that’s compressed
as as well as the
You know, whatever upper management opportunities
The boomers don’t get out of the way
and
You know, you’re just hollowing out
the the middle class or generation x
and the millennials
And then so we’ll see like it’s it’s adjusting expectations. You know, that’s what
President did this term, you know, I said right now i’m in
What’s the date august 15th 2026?
It’s now 459 as I record this on republic today republic today dot net
But the president set some low expectations, you know had just have one pencil. You don’t need a box of pencils to go to school
You know you get one doll, you know, you don’t need a hundred dolls every christmas
You don’t need ten dolls you you get get a doll get a pencil
Uh, you know, we got to cut down on school supplies economies not getting better, right? That’s the uh,
That’s the kind of hey politicians
You know, that’s how they talk, right?
So set those low expectations. So what is it? What’s the actual what’s after millennials x y z?
Uh z a all these different groups that are young now just they’re like, yeah, right. I’m just gonna have
some
delivery job
um or work in a warehouse
and
Who knows? Hopefully we have single-payer health care by then I you know
Republicans for single-payer republicans for single-payer say it out loud. I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m just again babbling
These are some rusty babbling podcasts, but I want to do something. I want to talk about something
important instead of my inability to
throw out
possessions of
the dead and dying
That’s what that’s what’s going on in my goth as an mf
goth gothic
Personal life right now
Yeah, I don’t know
Uh, uh scary creep here hosting republic today republic today dot net. No, I I mean
Kooky it’s more kooky
uh
And and I don’t know life life is life though life happens
Life happens and you have to kind of like I have to keep living my life
um
So anyway, thank you for listening. Thank you. Thank you
I don’t know
Let me know what I should do about social media stuff because there’s an x there’s a link to x on there and that’s
It’s gross
I know it’s just icky. I don’t is there any
Is there x left? Does that exist?
is there anarchy like act like
I can’t imagine like american like woke style anarchists. Are they
Are they on x are they even just bothering at all?
I
I just I can’t see it
So, okay. I don’t know. I don’t know but it’s on there right now as I record this
uh, so
I’ll figure something out when it comes to that. There’s some like weird youtube content too if you’re checking out the uh,
The socios
the socios
Okay. Thank you. Thank you for listening. Uh republic today republic today dot net