Losing IQ Points
0710-0947 – The path journal episode for last week, Da Vinci Code For Morons, was posted this morning. The walk today was pretty good. The construction equipment and leaf blowers were quiet, as was the foot dizziness. I got 36 minutes in without any problems.
The first podcast was the last 15 minutes of Why Are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s Kids Dropping “Pitt” from Their Names?, from Infamous. “Brangelina” is another reminder that celebrities are not always friendly, well adjusted individuals. The second show was Wendy O. Williams: The Shocking Final Act of a Shock Rock Provocateur, from Disgraceland. Wendy Orlean Williams (her real name) was a misfit teenager. She wound up as a domanatrix in a Times Square sex show, “Captain Kink’s Theater”. WOW and CK had many groovy adventures together. Unfortunately, this story does not have a happy ending. There was no encore at this concert.
0711-1057 – The walk was good, even if I nearly melted. July in Georgia is no joke. The podcast was “Judy Collins Reflects on Six Decades of Legendary Songwriting and Performances” on Takin’ A Walk. There were some cool stories, which might be true.
“It was 1967 and I was sound asleep. I woke up to the phone at three in the morning and it was Al Kooper. I said, why are you calling me? … So he said, I’m at the club and there’s a girl here and she said that she wrote songs. Then he put her on the phone and it was Joni Mitchell, and she sang me Both Sides Now. So I mean, that’s a very convenient way to collect songs. I guess we don’t have much control over it, but there it is. And I said I’ll be right over, which I did. I came over in the morning and I took Jack Holsmand with me and I recorded that song with my producer and it was incredible.”
“I had a job at, I forget the name of the club. … It was that hot club in the village and I was the headliner in 1961. That was amazing because I’d just been doing this since 1959, so I’d only been out on the road for a total of two and a half years. And I got to the little club and I was the headliner and my opener was a thirteen year old named Arlo Guthrie. And everybody in town was there. … I thought, Oh, they’re coming to see me. They were coming to see Arlo because Arlo was thirteen. He was having his first gig at this little club … And everybody was there.”
0712-1002 – The walk today was great. The podcast was Bryan Washington Reads “Gatekeeping” from The New Yorker. Bryan Washington is a favorite at tny. Today’s tale is about a wheelchair pusher at Houston’s airport. The actor has a collection of elderly people to propel to their flights, several of whom hit on him. The actor has an Asian “buddy,” but gets nervous when people say boyfriend. The story is an hour long, and I stayed on the path, with no foot issues, for the entire show.
@NewYorker “My brother answered the phone. He told me that there’d been an accident but not to panic.” · @chamblee54 “I listened to this on my morning walk. When brother said “your bf”, you said f*** n*****. America’s two favorite forbidden words.”
0713-0846 – The walk today was nice. Mild overcast weather, with barely noticeable foot dizziness. The first podcast was Episode 316: Graham Cracker Crumbles on Blocked and Reported. If only the show was as clever as the title. Jesse and Katie were talking about a wokeness incident in California before they talked about Graham Platner. Neither subject held much interest. The show I listened to the most was Maggie Haberman on Talk Easy. Maggie Lindsy Haberman has been covering New York, and Donald Trump, since 1996.
“They originally said that the ballroom was going to be near but not touching the East Wing. · And that’s also how he approaches his relationship to his wife.”
Re: “This whole handling of the Epstein files in the summer of 2025.” “From everyone we’ve spoken to who’s deep inside Trump’s world and our reporting, that really was the moment that he started to lose altitude with his own base. He’s so used to telling his supporters, “Believe me and not that.” And it generally has worked. Uh this one didn’t. and he is testing the limits on how long you can tell people two different things related to the same issue.”
0714-0915 – The walk today happened. The first show was For The Love Of Dogs: The Scam Shelters Abusing Animals For Clicks on Chameleon. It was about animal rescue scams based in Uganda, and it was as boring as it sounds. The host said that if you were upset by animal abuse, then you should skip the next few minutes. I decided to skip the rest of the episode. The next show was Happy Mondays: How Thieves, Drug Dealers, and Would-Be Kidnappers Took Over Madchester’s Music Scene on Disgraceland. Happy Mondays were a bunch of fun loving English deplorables. They started a band. What could possibly go wrong?
0715-0931 – The walk today was spectacular. I walked for over an hour with minimal foot discomfort. The entertainment product today was #448 – “Kirk BULLET!” – Death Investigator BREAKS SILENCE on Charlie Kirk | Joseph Scott Morgan on Julian Dorey Podcast. They were mostly discussing the Charlie Kirk case. The first hour included a detailed look at what happened to Mr. Kirk when he was hit, and about the autopsy procedure.
“One of the huge problems with this case just in general, regardless of what the truth is or isn’t, but it’s a huge problem that I think needs to be raised, is the complete fuckupery of every optic that you could have if you are trying to generate public trust in investigations.”
“But one of the things that was like, oh my god, who on earth told you to press send on this tweet was nine days afterwards or 10 days afterwards, Andrew Kolvet put out a tweet regarding what the doctors told him about Charlie’s wound.” This refers to a tweet from @AndrewKolvet This refers to a tweet from Andrew Kolvet. “His bone was so healthy and the density was so impressive that he’s like the man of steel. It should have just gone through and through.” We are entering the twilight zone.
“This is not a miracle. This is physics.” · “Like an exploding microphone. No, it’s · so you’re out on the exploding microphone. Okay, here we go. · So I think I lost points off of my IQ just by saying exploding microphone.” · “I can in fact see why people would have trouble grasping the idea that he is walking stiff-legged up that stairwell with that weapon in his pants.”
0716-0934 – The walk today happened. The feet worked, the heat and humidity were obnoxious, and the construction equipment at the school made noise. I lasted appx 44 minutes. 44 was Hank Aaron’s number, and is said by some to be a magic number. The entertainment product today was the last twenty minutes of #448 – “Kirk BULLET!” – Death Investigator BREAKS SILENCE on Charlie Kirk | Joseph Scott Morgan on Julian Dorey Podcast. JSM was throwing some DNA meganumbers around, and believes Tyler James Robinson was definitely at the crime scene. There are lots of unanswered questions. One regards the trajectory of the bullet that hit Charles James Kirk. … middle name synchronicity … These calculations have been made impossible by the renovation of the crime scene.
The inevitable comments about Lance Twiggs being trans were made. (The DOB and middle name of Mr. Twiggs are not available. Considering that all we have seen is a low-fi video of the gentleman, is it fair to speculate that Mr. Twiggs is an AI creation?) We do know that Twiggs/Robinson lived in St. George UT, 266 miles from UVU in Orem UT. · Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced “The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female.” I questioned this at the time. I think the Governor was trying to foment prejudice against TJR. The trans thing has been neither denied nor confirmed, but is constantly mentioned in talk about TJR.
Another bit of weirdness is George Hodgson Zinn. He is at the scene of the shooting, and announces that he is the killer. This makes no sense at all. Later, GHZ consents to a search of his phone, and LEO find “Child Sex Abuse Material.” How convenient. Julian Dorey makes a comment about this. “The George Zinn guy being there and then he finally goes down. He’s been arrested over the years for so many different things, but now they find CP on his stuff and he goes to prison for that as he should by the way, obviously.” … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Arthur Rothstein took the social media picture in July 1942. “Hayti, Missouri. Cotton carnival. Inspecting various grades of cotton” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Da Vinci Code For Morons
0703-0917 – The journal of last week is available. The walk went well today. The feet worked well. My back is starting to act cranky, which means drinking lots of water and otherwise taking it easy. 48 minutes on the path seems to agree with my spine.
The first podcast was Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane from The New Yorker. Once a month at TNY, somebody reads a story out of the archive. Today there was a male voice that was referring to “my husband.” Since the author is named Fiona, it is safe to say we have a female protagonist. The story was fun. A couple meets a Swiss girl. She is in a bad way, and the couple invites her to stay at their place. A few weeks later, the girl and her boyfriend disappear, and are later found murdered.
The second podcast was Louis C.K. on Tetragrammaton. Louis Alfred Székely is a famous comedian, whose content I have never made friends with. LCK talks in technical terms about comedy. “ I’ve been surprised sometimes by what bits have grown, but they’re seeds. Jokes are seeds. And sometimes they just polish and harden and stay the same size and they you end up with a nut and sometimes they sprout and grow roots and all kinds of [ __ ] like crazy [ __ ]”
0704-0944 – The walk was uneventful. There were no foot problems, and I did the standard 36 minutes. The podcasts were kinda blah. Chameleon had a rerun of an old show. I got bored quickly. Broken Records featured Joe Jackson, another 80s rockstar I never got into. Finally, I put on Wolfgang Van Halen on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan.
0705-1001 – The walk was uneventful. The dizziness came up in the second lap, but never got too bad. The show was Danny McBride’s Delusions of Grandeur from Talk Easy. “Daniel Richard McBride is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer.” DRB has his story. He describes the childhood experience of learning that adults don’t always know what they are talking about. “Well, once you’ve decoded that, the rest of life becomes very funny. You start seeing it everywhere. It’s like the Da Vinci Code of Morons. You get to just dissect them all. It’s great. · And so that’s how you would describe your childhood, a Da Vinci Code of Morons. · Yeah. Exactly. Then you could see the keys. You’re like, they’re everywhere. They’re all around us.” … DRB casually says “I have a very bad gambling problem.” This might be his Da Vinci code for morons.
0706-0929 – The walk today went well. The feet were not a problem. The entertainment was EP:53 – Kiev Burning from Provoked. Scott and Darryl were talking about the war in Ukraine.
“… it’s just like Dan Crenshaw said, like a lot of these guys have said, it’s just we get to trade dollars that we print, anyway, uh for Russian bodies. Sounds like a good deal to me. You know, that’s like what came out of Dan Crenshaw’s mouth.”
I was unable to verify this quote. However, you can find quotes by other people saying essentially the same thing. Support of Ukraine is seen as a way to weaken Russia. The dead conscripts, on both sides, are just the cost of doing business.
“But Fiona Hill wasn’t man enough to say, “No, you stupid. That the point is not about …” Dr. Hill was “an intelligence analyst under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama from 2006 to 2009 with the National Intelligence Council.” If the photographs are accurate, Dr. Hill presents as female.
“ Jordan Peterson, I think he’s scum. I never was impressed by him whatsoever. And I read this hilarious thing by Nathan Robinson who writes Current Affairs. … he wrote this article about Jordan Peterson and about what an absolute fraud he is and how he just uses all these big words and lots of italics to try to make just absolute idiot basic truisms seem like these profound breakthroughs of, you know, meaningful whatever.” This is Scott talking. Darryl is more sympathetic to Dr. Peterson. Soon, Scott fought back. “I never paid attention to all that stuff, because I have a dad.”
0707-0933 – The walk today was fabulous. There was mild dizziness, and I walked 1.51 miles in 47:12. The podcast was Jim Morrison: Who Killed Jim Morrison?, from Disgraceland. Jim Morrison’s death was mysterious. One plot has Jimbo faking his death, and becoming Rush Limbaugh. Jake concludes that the most likely scenario has Jimbo confusing heroin for cocaine, and taking a terminal toot.
Another story I had not heard involves Janis Joplin. Allegedly, she kept a supply of cocaine in an amulet on her neck. If she felt an od coming on, she could snort some coke to snap out of it. Somehow, the cocaine was swapped out for heroin, with fatal results.
The first show ran out before the walk ended, and I went to the next show on the media player. It was Legendary Manager Freddy DeMann on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan Mr. DeMann is the former manager of Michael Jackson and Madonna. This show promises to be entertaining. “I used to smoke a little Reefer. And uh Reefer dates me, doesn’t it? · Yes, it does.”
0708-0953 – The walk today happened. I stopped after 36:00 minutes, with nuisance level dizziness throughout. The entertainment was more of Legendary Manager Freddy DeMann on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan. Freddy talked about Michael Jackson and Madonna.
“Michael said to me, “Fred, I’m so glad you fought with Quincy and won. I didn’t have the nerve to talk to him, so I’m so glad you did.” Michael’s first solo album, Off the Wall, was being released. Quincy Jones wanted one song to be the first single, and Mr. DeMann wanted another. As it turns out, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” was a huge hit.
“You know the record business rewards sociopaths. I’m not accusing Michael Jackson of being a sociopath, but there’s sociopathic behaviors that all artists have, and I would include myself in that. It’s a desire to be loved or cherished or celebrated or win, you know, all any combination of the above. Ambition being the central word in that.” This is Billy Corgan talking.
0709-0909 – The walk today was a bit tougher. The dizziness started, and never went away. A construction device at the top of the hill made a lot of noise. The show was The Sting That Exposed How Meta Endangers Kids from Question Everything. Host Brian Reed promoted the show on X. “@BriHReed In 2023, special investigators in the office of Internet Crimes Against Children created a Facebook account for a fictional 13-year-old girl named “Issa Bee.” (The name was inspired by the 21 Savage song.) They were trying to catch a specific sexual predator they were tracking.”
The state of New Mexico set up a sting operation to catch people who try to “date” underage girls. TSTEHMEK centers around a “13 yo girl” the LEO digitally created. Within a few weeks on facebook, “Issa Bee” had 5000 “friends” and over 7000 followers. How many of these digital pervs were real humans, and how many were bots? Is there an ai ourobouros of bots chasing after bots? … The case is in the New Mexico courts now. Whatever ruling the court issues will be appealed ad nauseam.
The pictures are haiku reductions created by some weirdo in Georgia.
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