In the interim, a very cool first-person recap from the Women's March on Washington that features my wife and kids (one of them by name) popped up in the most random of places. My 15 year-old attends high school with the daughter of D.C. area radio personality Robb Spewak. In the most random of coincidences, Spewak's friend and podcasting partner Katie von Hermann came to town for the Women's March and landed a seat on the same bus that my wife and kids took into the city, with Spewak's daughter in tow. Since she and my daughter are friends, they decided to pair up with my family, and wound up spending the day together.
Von Hermann and Spewak recorded a special episode of their podcast yesterday, recounting her experience. It's alternately inside-jokey, silly, and moving, and though it's 72 minutes long, I really enjoyed it. Those of you that attended will relate, and those that didn't will find yourself transported to that incredible scene.
And if anyone can figure out how to embed it, they've got more skeelz than me.
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| My wife is at top left, and my rugrats at bottom left. Teejay is there somewhere. |
That was long but worth the recap. First mention about 38 minutes in. That must have been a crazy scene. I've been on the Mall for the fireworks way back in the day and that felt way too crowded for me but this blows that out of the water.
ReplyDeleteIt is still amazing that no one got arrested.
What a cool audio journal for your family to have!
ReplyDeleteRob--was that your kid with the "holy shit" remark?
Rob's Family
ReplyDeleteDrunken sailors
Construction workers
Longshoremen
Bikers
Rappers
Wounded pirates
1-900 number employees
LBJ
Marls
Oil field workers
Truck Drivers
in order of swears the most to swears the least
I am deeply offended to not make that list.
ReplyDeleteyes, shlara, if i heard the audio correctly, that was my 12 year-old. we're very proud.
ReplyDeleteit was an appropriate use of the term--very fitting for the situation. you should be proud.
ReplyDeleteTJ, you don't swear that much.
ReplyDeletei see what you want me to do
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what's the best legal way for me to bet on college hoops? need to start prepping my wvu ncaa tourney hedge strategy.
ReplyDeleteCan I wager on whether this wall gets built?
ReplyDeletehi g's.
ReplyDeletenice post rob.
met ray lewis tonight at our local Orlando hangout. 2nd night in a row for my boss who spent about 2 hours w/him last night. was unplanned. as murderers go, he's a pretty damn nice, sincere, genuine, real, all around cool guy murderer. and his wife...wow. hotter than Georgia asphalt and not a floozy bone in the body. you heard it here first.
ReplyDeleteI need to up my cussing game. Surely I can out do LBJ.
ReplyDeleteAs for the wall, clearly it will be built in some form. Completion, on the other hand, is doubtful. At a cost of $15 to $25 billion this fucking thing is going to rival the Maginot Line in terms of cost and futility.
God forbid we toss a couple of bucks to support the NEA, but $15 billion for a fucking fence you can tunnel under or climb over...sounds great especially since John Q Taxpayer gets to foot the bill and not Mexico. Politics aside, it's just so colossally stupid. You want to keep illegal aliens from coming in? Enforce the existing tax laws and cut off the $$.
Agree wholeheartedly, but on the plus side, we will surely get to her more of Pink Floyd's The Wall for a while, an album and trippy late-night film I still dig.
ReplyDeletePink Floyd, "Nobody Home"
Bob Geldof pre-cause
15 years ago, Luther Wright & the Wrongs covered the whole album in country/bluegrass style. Fun.
Luther Wright & the Wrongs, "Young Lust"
Screw the wall - Dow 20K baby!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Mexican company Cemex will get the contract to build the wall.
Theoretically, I don't have a problem with limiting the influx of undocumented immigrants coming in from Mexico. Some of you folks think this is a bad thing. Sad!
Will the wall stop people from taking a boat from Mexico to Texas?
ReplyDeletei don't have much problem with enforcing existing immigration laws, but i do have a problem with demonizing a class of people who are providing real value to our economy. it's the demonization of the other across the board that's the most distressing element of the early trump administration. that, and the not so slow erosion of core american values like freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to vote.
ReplyDeleteI failed to include a mention of Pink Talking Fish, the band that plays spot-on covers of 3 bands only, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, and Phish. They are playing the $10 afterparty show after Ween in C'ville 4/20. Also thinking about seeing them in Columbus 3/10. Check 'em out.
ReplyDeleteFirst Amendment getting knocked around in a back alley while the Second Amendment rides around Trump's gold limo.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a problem with limiting undocumented immigrants in, I just think a marginally guarded $15B wall is a stupid way to police a 2000 mile border.
ReplyDeleteIf all the ladies a the march on Saturday had been carrying, I don't think DJT would be so keen on the 2nd amendment.
ReplyDeleteCarrying mace?
ReplyDeleteThis world needs less mace and more Ma$e.
ReplyDeleteTR's comment feels so good.
ReplyDeleteRIP Mary Tyler Moore.
ReplyDeletefor a great metaphor on why people voted trump, especially on immigration, listen to the new hidden brain. episode 59: the deep story. i'll write a post, but not now-- i have to go get some acupuncture.
ReplyDeleteRIP, Butch Trucks.
ReplyDeleteWho would have figured Mary Tyler Moore would go before Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Cloris Leachman, and Betty White?
ReplyDeleteAnd Butch Trucks would go before Gregg Allman or Dickey Betts?
Shame about Butch. He just played the Harvester in Rocky Mount earlier this month. The boys in the band and I just listened to Allman Bros at Filmore East on the way back from a gig last week. We all concurred that the Allmans two drummer attack was much better than the Grateful Dead's.
ReplyDeleteI'm super sad about MTM.
ReplyDeleteTwo of my all-time favorite TV women: Laura Petrie + Mary Richards
Also, on the Dow--I know I'm not a Wall Street dude.
But I don't put too much confidence in it. See Planet Money's take:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/04/508261371/episode-443-dont-believe-the-hype
Dow is a joke index indeed, Shlara. Goldman Sachs has the most weight b/c if it has the highest stock price, even though it is much smaller than Exxon. But with that said, the S&P 500 closed at an all-time high today as well.
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Me thinks this is the end of the beginning of the rally, not the beginning of the end. We have had horrific GDP growth since the mid-aughts. Blame it on Dubya being asleep at the wheel if you want, but it's a fact. Get normal inflation, normal GDP growth and a partial repatriation of somemof the $1.8 Trillion of cash US cos have sitting overseas, and you have a big rip coming.
(faux pundit rant off)
Totally agree with you TR on the S&P 500--which makes me feel smart b/c you ARE a Wall Street dude.
ReplyDeleteThe newly-elected leader of the free world eschews free markets in favor of mercantilism and the markets go up. That makes no sense, at least not to me and my minimal understanding of economics.
ReplyDeletehi again. pga show. 20th year.
ReplyDeleteray lewis again tonight...I think we're buddies. didn't ask him about bloody clothes.
I hate to continue the name dropping but not really. 1993 - apple blossom. mtm. Friday before the parade. along the street after stag luncheon. yours truly and mtm converse about life. filmed by dc news. she had a Winchester connection of some kind. I dug her and I mean, come on, vice versa. great lady. makes me sad. rest in peace Mary. Love You.
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