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All right, all right, hmm
Hold open. It’s cold. My voice is cold. I’m not warmed up
This is Republic today
Republic today dotnet
I’m
Recording
today
July 23rd
2026
It’s 849
p.m. On my
Laptop computer
I’m recording from the Empire State
Republic today Republic today dotnet. I
Just decided to jump in on
Here record and improvise and so if you’re a first-time listener
Um
Then this sounds choppy to you
You might you might kind of get into the rhythm
If you’ve been listening for a long time and there at one point there were literally I mean
I would get hundreds of streams. I don’t know
If it was early bots, this would have been like 2009 or something
a
lot of it from China
There were some Chinese and vaguely Chinese like red and gold flag star sort of imagery
The Republic today flag
was red white and gold I guess and
you know, I was I was recording out of New Orleans and
I was living there for a long time
Southern style a ding-dang do you but I was in New Orleans so it doesn’t feel like
Rural deep south. It’s not rural, Louisiana. You know, I mean when you’re in
New Orleans, I mean you could almost imagine that it’s not
The southeastern United States, you know, it’s Dallas is a bigger city and I kind of just
Toss the entire state of Texas into the southwest when I’m doing regions, but
Texas is actually a hybrid place where it’s both the south of the Confederacy as
well as as a connection to
One of the three cultures of the United States cowboy culture. I don’t know who originally said this theory
but
Someone told it to me
When I was at the old space of the Iron Rail and there’s all kinds of
All kinds of colorful characters coming and going at all times and someone who happened to be
associated with
the old Iron Rail that summer
Told me that
They read somewhere that
There are three kinds of Americans
there’s Yankees Southerners and Cowboys and
And
Every single American fits into one of those categories
And it’s been tough. I mean you can obviously say it the whole thing silly and so don’t waste your
Intellectual energy thinking about these kind of things
But I thought about it and at the time and when it crosses my mind these days, I still think well
That
Sounds kind of true to me like it does seem like every American
Fits into you so think of a stereotype and they’re probably either a Yankee a cowboy or a Southerner
Are there different kinds of Yankees?
Cowboys and Southerners, of course, of course, they’re different kinds. So just something to think about
The
Performance art project of Republic today Republic today net
the performance art project is
That I’m I’ve decided to slap on
Senate too because it is unserious. It’s it’s very unserious
but I’m running for Senate in the state of New York as well as
Congress for the New York’s 25th District and
So, what would I do were I to be elected how would I campaign?
Let me it gives me a little bit of focus and and sort of a lens with which if you listen to
Republic say Republic today net 15 years ago
I
Was doing research, you know before shows and talking about statistics. I was compiling things
A lot of that was good
content and I do want to learn
and so
This is sort of an audio journal for me learning
About the world and I want you to learn and talk about politics and I want to get I want to do something
I want to be active. Is this slack tivism? It’s way worse than that
I’m just
babbling into a microphone
Here, that’s what Republic today Republic today net is right now
it’s a fictitious run for New York Senate and
not State Senate, but
To be a senator in the United States government representing the Empire State
I it seems like both the senators are
sort of the toxic capitalist establishment types as well as
The the congress person here in New York and so I
Mean, let me put it out there right now if it were a serious thing if I was really a
Threat to
The establishment Democrats or the establishment politicians in New York State and in New York’s 25th
I’m putting myself out there to catch bullets
Yes catching bullets it’s sort of a metaphor a turn of phrase what happens when you threaten power
In the gun era, I guess I
Think there was probably during pre-gun
Literacy era there were people who threatened the establishment
Just their power not threatening them violently just threatening them in terms of power money
Influence capital
Live by the pen die by the sword
Because the state’s gonna come for you you write bad stuff about the prime minister or king or whatever they got in Europe
Where they had swords back before guns?
You write bad stuff about a warlord or an emperor in
ancient China
Live by the brush. I guess they brushed not pen live by the brush die by the sword
I don’t know when they got started having pens in China
But I want to learn that’s what this project is it’s for me to learn
So I just had to get on and do something it had been a few days
Really original some some original incarnations. There were daily shows and I do
Have the do I have the intellectual energy to put out good content is this good?
It reminds me of a song by Naomi is Naomi good or bad
So, I don’t know if this is good necessarily, but it’s something it’s better than perhaps if I was trying to do it every day are and
Republic today Republic today dotnet
so
What’s on the agenda?
It does seem like before running for Senate. I’d have to run for Congress
and I
Don’t know. I don’t think there is an organized left and
I you know, I want to be passionate. I keep saying, you know, I had a medical professional
Mentioned sort of being passionate about something doing a job
I think I could do a good job
And things that on paper I’m not qualified to do I think a lot of Americans I mean
Well, I want to do surveys I want to I want to know I want to know statistically, but I also want to know sort of
sort of
Eyeball test how motherfuckers are doing in the 25th district and in America and in the world
I mean, this is the learning I want to do because
Indeed comm wages are low
Wages are surprised anyone who’s like, huh? This is like New York is a high-tax state
you’re not taking home a lot of what you’re making so it seems like wages should be higher to account for that and
services should be better to reflect that and in fact, New York is hood as a
motherfucker and
Services are much more bureaucratic and difficult than other states. I’ve lived in and worked with
Wages are low
Wages are low
On a d.com and maybe wages aren’t low if you’re going on the d.com in New York City
I don’t know. I should check it out. I’m here to learn
This project is an audio journal of my learning
Yarmouth so I
I
Don’t I don’t know what the media I can I can ask AI or I can even do an internet search
I’m a DDG person
but I do
mess around with that AI and I’m
Currently implementing sort of a
plan to have less screens in my life and
Am I implementing it? I’m planning on implementing having less screens
But recording Republic today Republic today dotnet does require a screen. I can do this
I can send it out into the universe
Sorry for clearing my throat clearing my throat, I’m sorry
Excuse me for clearing my throat
This is that raw stuff. This is that real stuff. It’s not that fake stuff
So
Republic today Republic today dotnet. I guess this episode seems a little unhinged
Don’t worry y’all. I’m self aware. I’m self aware that this
Seems unhinged, but I’ll catch you next time tune in next time. Thank you like and subscribe
Republic today Republic today dotnet