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0619-0934 · I got off the path, and settled down in front of the keyboard. I checked Low Light Mixes, and found a new mix, Just My Type(records). Today shows every sign of being a good day. The podcast was Tucker Carlson talking to Trita Parsi. The yt title was Neocons Move to Merge CIA & Mossad While Netanyahu Desperately Begs Trump Not to Leave His Side.
“Trita Parsi تریتا پارسی is an Iranian-Swedish international relations writer and political analyst who is co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also co-founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council.” TP became famous recently because of an article at The Free Press, EXCLUSIVE: Will the U.S. Deport Trita Parsi? I have not read EWTUSDTP because The Free Press has an aggressive pay wall.
On September 9, 2025, the IDF bombed Doha, Qatar. On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk died. September 11, 2025, was the 24th anniversary of September 11, 2001. This might be a coincidence.
Tucker had a delightful comment. “Bari Weiss … I got to give her credit … mid-level IQ, zero talent, very charming, relentless, great with people. She’s great with people and on the right side of the donors. And she has done, she has outperformed her ability. Like, I’ve never seen it. Like, America still is a land of opportunity for certain kinds of people.”
0620-1143 … The walk was good, even if my mood was not. There was very little dizziness, and I did a double victory lap. I also did a lap around school property at the top of the hill. There is major construction going on there, so the county is obviously going to do something with the building, even if the elementary school closes.
The podcast was Provoked. I appreciate the hell out of Scott and Darryl, for speaking truth when powerful forces want you to be silent. However, the content is much the same week after week. While I agree with almost all of what S&D say, my opinion does not count. The “special interests” who benefit from these wars have a lot of money and influence. I saw an item on x today, confirmed by grok, that facebook was deleting thousands of items critical of Israel. We may be in a runaway train going off a cliff, whether we like it or not. … I should be grateful walking back and forth on the path for 50:55, as I did today. The thought came to me as I was about to climb the driveway after my second victory lap … Thank you God for letting me do this. I don’t want to get bogged down in the implications of that sentence, but prefer to say it, go inside to an air conditioned house, put an ice pack on my knee, and write my path journal for today.
0621-1010 · The walk lasted 36 minutes, which means I finished. The feet were acting up. While I never doubted that I would make it to the buzzer, it was not pleasant. The podcast was a piece of work/story from The New Yorker. “The Readers,” by Ben Lerner, just dragged on and on. I was having doubts early, but decided to listen for one lap, then two, then till it was over. An author is going to a therapist. It is an issue that the therapist does not read his work. The author has open heart surgery, and writes a magazine article about it. Along the way, we learn that the author is married with kids. The therapist does not read his article, and this becomes a major issue … more important than his family, his heart, or anything else going on in the world. When the story ended I said “Thank God” out loud. Yesterday I said “Thank you God.”for gifting me a 50:55 walk. Today, I depersonalized Yahweh, and said “Thank God” for this horrible story coming to an end.
0622-1708 I did not do a normal walk today. I was taking someone from Buford to Northside Hospital Forsyth. We arrived at NSF at roughly 10:30, which is only 15 minutes late for the appointment. We are here in the lobby of one of the buildings at the Cumming pill hill facility.
I left Brookhaven at 0815, thinking that would be plenty of time to get to Jan’s house by 0915. (Not her real name.) I was only off by a half hour. My first sight of the house was what I expected, only worse. There was an abandoned trailer in the drivway, with a Bush Cheney bumper sticker. There were three gnarly looking cats. The weeds were out of control. There was a tarpaulin on the outside of the garage. When Jan finally came down, she started to tell me about how the person that was going to fix the garage didn’t do their job right. I said let’s come on, we have somewhere to be. … The trip over here was fine. Buford Dam Road is a lively Road, and we had plenty to talk about. We both went to DeKalb College in the early seventies, and we had stories about that.
1103 I’m at the corner of Quarry extension/Deputy Bill Cantrell Memorial Road and Ronald Reagan Boulevard. My strategy was to leave the hospital complex, take a right, and walk until the sidewalk ends. .79 mile later, I am at the end of the sidewalk. If I go back to the air conditioned building, that will be a 1.6 mile walk. The podcast was Do-Over. “A woman uses an AI simulation app to practice difficult conversations before she has them, and begins to prefer them to real life.” Under normal circumstances, I turn this off in under 5 minutes. Today is not normal, and I finished the show. Nobody got killed, so it’s a good story. My next podcast is going to be an episode by Gilbert Gottfried … GGACP Rewind: Mini-Ep #4: Pennies From Heaven and the Great Lon Chaney Jr. Here I am in redneck Georgia, listening to an obnoxious New York Jew. What could possibly go wrong. … Adam West said that Gilbert Gottfried would have made a great penguin. … The Sun kept peeking in and out of clouds when I started this walk. I thought it might rain, and then the sun started to come out, with the 20° increase in temperature that sunshine brings. At 11:22 Gilbert show is over, and I am back in pill hill hell. … It is 11:32 I am back in the air conditioned office building. I did 1.56 MI with very very little dizziness in my feet. · Hospital lobbies are great places for people watching. I am listening to Dave Smith and Candace Owens. It is apparently live, so I can’t scroll ahead. They’re talking about how the powers that be don’t want them to say what they’re saying, and that they tried to cancel them. They went on and started their own show, and had a bigger audience. Unfortunately I’ve heard both of them say this many many many many times. Dave and Candace are on the verge of violating the ultimate taboo … they are being boring.
0623-0959 · This was the worst walk in a while. The dizziness started on the first lap, and by the fourth lap I was having trouble walking. The podcasts were not much better. Chameleon gave us Mother of All Stories: A Daughter Falls Under A Spell. A mother with young daughters is involuntarily institutionalized, kidnaps the girls, and gets custody anyway. This pushes too many buttons. … The Case of the Mysterious Killer Clown is from How It All Went South. A person rents a clown costume, and bumps off the mother of young kids. Many years later, evidence points to daddy’s secret girlfriend. I probably would have finished this if I had finished my walk.
0624-1035 · There was no walk today. I cut the lawns instead. The good news is absolutely zero dizziness in my feet. This is a long running pattern, and I find it puzzling. Of course, I don’t know what causes the dizziness. The doctor who admitted me to Northside Hospital last July hypothesized that it was neuropathy, connected to my funky L5-S1 disc. Whatever. … Since there was a raging gasoline engine at my feet, there was no podcast consumption. They will be ok without me.
0625-1138 · Today’s walk was the shit. The feet behaved well, and I did 40 minutes and could have done more. … When I was getting started, I noticed a dog burger on the sidewalk. This is fairly common on the path itself, where you scoop up the product, and a bit of dirt underneath. On concrete, some of the soft serve was sticking to the sidewalk. I got a bucket, scooped water out of the creek, and washed the fertilizer off as best I could.
The podcast was Question Everything, featuring Ashley St. Clair. She is one of Elon’s babymamas, and is currently doing a scorched earth media tour. AS (Her middle name is a secret) tried to get QE to not run this interview, which was recorded in front of a live audience. I was listening to this show while performing doo doo diligence on the sidewalk. That is a MAGA metaphor.
At one point AS said mannerism, but it sounded like maneurysm. Turns out that maneurysm is a real word, defined by the Urban Dictionary as “An aneurysm onset by an attractive man.” · @stclairashley “I am in possession of legitimate major airline boarding passes for migrants that quite literally have the name printed as “NO NAME GIVEN” 11:37 AM · Dec 21, 2023” This claim, along with many others, was mentioned on the show. The tiniest amount of investigation indicates that this is a lie. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the social media picture in June 1940. “Truckers at Capital truck drivers’ comfort station on U.S. Highway No. 1. Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue, Washington, D.C.” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah