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Okay. Huh. Is this thing on? Tap, tap. Hello, ladies and gents. No. Uh, they’re, they’re
cold opens now. All right, this is Republic Today. RepublicToday.net. I’m recording from
the Empire State. It is July 19th, 2026 to 21 p.m. on my laptop screen, right hand bottom
corner. This is Republic Today. RepublicToday.net. This podcast first started in, gosh, I want
to say like nine, but it was probably 10, like 2010. And then I go for long stretches
of years without doing much. And then every once in a while I do some recordings. So that’s
what this is. I was trying to call it political philosophy for a long time. When you put podcasts
up on different platforms, you have to categorize things. There’s arts and humanities. And so
political politics and news is humanities work. However, it’s not really art. Anyway,
the categories don’t work. So now I am going to be categorizing back into arts. Republic
Today. RepublicToday.net is a performance art product. Performance art. I’m fantasizing
about running for Congress in 2028, New York’s 25th. It’s every two years, right, Congress?
Do you, you’re, you’re running for Congress and you don’t even know every detail about
elections? Well, I mean, I’m, I’m doing a podcast. I’m doing a podcast just off the dome. There’s
like zero prep. The whole thing is freestyle. I decide, okay, I’m going to record. And so like
I hit record and then I started talking and this is one take. So I’ve been talking for two and a
half minutes, one take and I don’t, they’re a little bit, I mean, last episode, this one,
it’s a little bit all over the place, but I’m just kind of getting back in the rhythm. So the
performance art project of, you know, what would I do were I elected to Congress or running for
Congress? Because like, I ain’t out in the community. I mean, working full time, having
family obligations and yeah, recreating with my partner. Like I, I am not out there in the
community. So part one of running is just when you have free time, when I have free time,
when I fictitious candidate has free time, just be out in the, in the streets, I guess, you know,
knocking on church doors or something. I do think I have some overarching ideas about
legislative policy that would be good for those community members in New York 25. I listen to
opinion podcasts on a regular basis and it was talk radio before that. I got into podcasting
so long ago, really like when it first started being a thing and at least listening to it. And
it was just the direct line from, oh, there these, this talk radio, this sports talk radio or politics
talk radio is on demand streaming through this audio stuff. Great. Boom. I was of an age where
I liked being an early adopter of these consumer products. Now, if it doesn’t resolve in being an
engineer or what is that word today? Salesman, influencer, salesman, influencer, salesman. Like
if you’re not making dough, then being an early adopter just means you spend money, right? You’re
a foolish consumer. I’m a renter. I’ve, I’ve rent apartments. And so like, what a stupid loser,
right? So if I think I’m a stupid loser, that probably doesn’t make me the best candidate to,
you know, lead the deliberative body or be part of, be a leader, be a representative,
to have a leadership position in terms of the democracy. So that’s Republictoday.net. That’s
the theme. It’s a performance art project, product, project, project product. A shopping
assignment I have for a different project I have is a projector. I want to do some slideshows,
but like I’ve been out of that. I’ve been working in hospitality so long and so intently and been
so focused on my personal relationships when I’m not spinning my wheels in hospitality. And it does
feel like wheel spinning with, anyway, I’m not, Republictoday, Republictoday.net. Sometimes I
want it to be therapy. And I think there’s been some episodes in the past where I’ve, I think
it’s been therapeutic. I have a similar kind of monologue, monologue genre is stand-up comedy,
which I’ve never tried. And I don’t really go to shows. Writing comedy seems so ridiculously
difficult. I don’t understand how comedy writers do it. I enjoy comedy writing, though, but I don’t
really, I’m not a big stand-up guy. And I’ve thought, though, like going through some life
events, that maybe that would be a good way. I used to like to act when I was a youth. Basically,
when I got into adulthood, I got out of acting. But I like to act. I was a big actor as a youth.
And so being on stage, I’m very comfortable. Where I think I would be, it’s been a trillion
years, and I don’t like doing karaoke. So, I don’t know. Stand-up comedy could be therapeutic
if I just like talk about traumatic things. But that, like this whole little last couple
minutes of this recording has not been funny or entertaining. I’m just trying to put myself
out there right now with this new idea of the performance art project that this, you know,
recordings produce. So, maybe this will just be a quick one. It’s very all over the place,
but thank you for listening. We’ll see what happens in the future with Republic Today,
republictoday.net.