Roleyshow

April 5, 1994. I turned on the TV. They were playing Unplugged with a crawl going across the bottom of the screen. Elvis changed the game. The Beatles changed the game. Nirvana changed the game. In my lifetime, I never saw anything like Kurt Cobain, and we'll never see anything quite like him again.

After a bit of a windup -- no, really, the open took six minutes -- Roley is reading a book called Digital Minimalism which dovetails with the anti Facebook, anti mindless scrolling kick he's on right now. Why don't we be mindful of when we take our phones out? Why are we doing that right now? Are we bored? You know what's on the other side of bored? The neat stuff your brain comes up with looking for something to do. I say we try that for a couple days, and meet up on Twitter at 9pm Eastern. Maybe Live IG too. Use hashtag #roley324. See ya then, freaks.

F**k your seasons. I hate seasons. You know what I like? Summer twelve months a year. I'm gonna have that again one day. Trust. An obligatory ScrappyGull Update/shill. Get used to it. Some encouraging news to share, actually. Finally, you'll make the giant mutant teddy bear OR WE RIOT.

Roley rants a bit about the Biden Problem, and laments that we're shaping up to have a battle about who is bluer than whom. You know what that gets you? Four more years of THIS. C'mon.

After a couple of months of talking, it's show time. Today I talk about Scrappy Gull Media, which went live today. Follow SGM on Twitter and Instagram

I have a feeling we’re not gonna ever see that report, but I have a rather weird reason that really isn’t out of the realm of possibility... This episode was produced completely on the 11 inch iPad Pro as an experiment using Ferrite, because I wanted to see if it could be done easily. Not bad...

You're going to notice that I think this is the Friday Show. That is because I'm an idiot. I spent the afternoon watching British Parliament. Like ya do. Plus, a little talk about the new shiny I picked up yesterday, and a tale of Two Peggy's.

Me and Rules, Authority Figures, and people who think they know better than I how to do something I've done for years. I got Podsplained by one of the Self Appointed, and that person made a mistake: He got my Pirate up.

For those of who are not familiar with the behavior of a malicious narcissistic personality, let me give you the situation. Buckle up.

To use a sports metaphor, that's what I think happened this weekend. But, to use another one, we're not in the Bottom of the Ninth yet. Not even close.

I don't think it means what you think it means. In fact, I know it doesn't. Let me help you with that, Jim.

I was going to talk about something else, and then I saw this story about Hermes lamenting the fact that people aren't buying ties anymore. I talk about the beginnings of what is now the necktie, and how I'd like to be talking about how the necktie ended.

I know someone Devin Nunes should have called before he was stupid on the Internet. But he didn't, because he's stupid everywhere else, too.

Pretty sure I'm gonna piss some of you off. Fantastic. Opening Salvo: There is not one bit of difference between "Inspired By Trump" and "Inspired by ISIS", except we look the other way about one of them. The FAA let Boeing inspect itself. What could possibly go wrong? Podcasting has finally hit a tipping point where 52 percent of respondents to the Infinite Dial Survey have listened to a podcast in the last month. That means this platform is officially mainstream, and is now a mature medium. You're welcome. LINKS New Yorker Bloomberg Infinite Dial 2019

Sitting in a parking lot at 7am on Monday Morning because I've been sick all weekend. Nothing Special here, Freaks. Keeping to the schedule.

Sorry for the voice. I'm Not Optimal™. Quick shout out to those of you who engage with me on the socialz, I'm really enjoying that. Por ejemplo, today I'm going to expand on something I said in response to Friend of the Ship Jody. A Call out to the Freaks: Do you have any "Inner Workflows" that you use for...anything? Share it with the Freaks.

Being a fan of Doctor Who, I'm smacking myself for missing the reference while I recorded the show. Came to a realization as I'm wrapping up a project about the proper care and feeding of a Roley so that I don't end up losing it. Something we're doing now works. Also, a little teeny internal fight I'm having with myself as a result of the new normal.

We've graduated beyond Helicopter Parents, Now Mom is a fixer. It's not 'tell me the name of the judge', now it's 'tell me the name of the test administrator.' Disgusting.

It really doesn't take much to bring the batshit crazy into focus with some people. Jeanine Pirro, for one. Tucker Carlson for another. Clip heavy episode here, because reasons. Enjoy.

A new way to do CPR that's a hard pass for me. Also, Facebook wants you to know how very sorry they are, but...y'know...who needs Skynet?