#HMB 266 - Merry Christmas & Goodbye 2018!
Merry Christmas, gang! Last pod of the year features how the holiday brings out the best and worst in us, why living in Florida may be beneficial to your health & a clip talking about the new holiday dating trend: Scrooge-ing, where you break up with a partner in order to not have to buy them a gift.
I’m going to take a few weeks off from the pod to enjoy the holiday but I’ll still be doing Stay Woke and hopefully will be filling in on some of the other daytime shows so follow me on Twitter & I’ll let you know. Otherwise, I’ll talk to you in a few weeks. I hope you have a great holiday and I thank you much for your support. Check out the pod below & I’ll talk with you next year.
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#HMB 238 - You Got No Soul, Brother...
CNN: Travel host Anthony Bourdain dead at 61 by suicide. Photo courtesy of Bay News 9.
This one stings a little more. Anthony Bourdain was a guy I watched for many years as I lived vicariously though him as he ate and drank his way through the world. I appreciated his perceived toughness but openness to new experiences and cultures and was grateful I got to at least witness them through the box in my living room. I hope to have a fraction of the experiences he got to have in his life one day. He ended his life last week in a hotel room in France. Strung himself up with a bathrobe belt. What a waste...
I'm sympathetic to mental illness. I was medicated pretty heavily from 6 years old to 16. When I was a boy I tried to do the same thing with a belt, luckily I was a kid and didn't understand the process to succeed in the mission. I've had very close family members take a whole bottle of their medication and thankfully didn't succeed. I'm sure many of us have the same stories. Something is very wrong with our culture. Suicide is up 30 percent since 1999, according to the CDC. Even people who appear to have it all are susceptible. There's always been some romanticism to the act itself. Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson come to mind off hand. The drive to want to be in control so much that even controlling when and where you leave the planet becomes a paramount in life. It's really the only thing we could control in life if you think about it; no other outside variables. We're just here for such a short time. Can't we grit through 80 years or so? We have forever for the converse...
I don't know, I'm sympathetic to it though. If you don't want to live anymore, why should you have to? It's a shame for the people who loved you and many of them won't be the same because of the act for the rest of their lives. Many taut the trope that we need to spend more on mental healthcare in America. They seem to be ignorant to the fact that people on psychiatric medication is alarming in this country with side-effects including, ironically, "suicide". I'm definitely not one of those people who hates corporations as much as I probably should but Big Pharma appears to be one of the more nefarious business' out there. Between creating a opioid epidemic and potentially creating drugs that lead to suicide that 1 in 6 American's are on, it may be time to start pointing fingers at the elephant in the room...
Anyhoo, this week on the podcast I got stood up again by a guest so I'm all by my lonesome talking Wyoming banning Rap after Kanye West's ranch listening party, Hurricane Maria death numbers become a point of contention in the Florida Senate race between Bill Nelson & Rick Scott and Miss America pageant ditches the swimsuits and becomes a "competition". Let me know what you think in the comments below or leave a voice or text message at (813) 693-2124. Check out the pod, here:
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#HMB 236: See You Next Tuesday, You Lil' Monkeys!
Here's a picture of the old St. Pete Pier because I didn't take a picture this week. Pretty, huh?
This week on the show I'm all by my lonesome talking about Roseanne getting fired for an alcohol and Ambien fueled tweet & Samantha Bee not being fired for calling the presidents daughter a C-word, while insinuating that she should try to seduce him sexually (gross). Everybody is still mad at everyone down partisan lines & we're all making excuses for members of our "team" who are getting in trouble, oy vey. The Lightning blow another chance to bring home Stanley's Cup and people are talking about maybe firing Coach Cooper. The Las Vegas Golden Knights are in their first year of existence and have a shot to win it all but Las Vegas casinos may be secretly hoping they don't. All this and more in this weeks The Homemade Broadcast. There's some harsh language I left in for context so if that bothers you, grow up and frig off. OK, let's do this:
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#HMB 234 - I'm Offended That You're Offended
I'm sorry you feel that way.
It's been a whirlwind week. The thing with time is that there is never enough of it. I got to do some cool stuff this week and got a lot of airtime on The Bone including filling in on the morning show which was a hell of an experience. No one cares though, you still gotta get your stuff done when you say you will so this weeks pod I'm all by my lonesome stuttering and stammering my way though this weeks stories that caught my eye. This week it's mostly about people being offended- a professor got in trouble for making an old elevator joke and a local journalist finds The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art problematic for perpetuating stereotypes or some bullcrap. As we all know, art needs to be totally historically accurate. She caught a lot of flack for the article from readers so I feel bad for kind of piling on but seriously, get a grip, ASAP. Kitsch? Sure, but it's not a problem, it's just tacky art that one person dislikes. Welcome to my life, everyday. Anyhoo, check out the pod below:
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