Good afternoon,

So in the show notes for the latest episode. I mentioned that it was probably a good idea for people to chill out tonight, especially considering the recent “tragedy”. 

you may have noticed if you see the post on the Almighty book that it looked a little different this week and you didn’t see the cover art.

 That’s because Zuckerberg and his stupid motherfucking algorithm flagged my post for the word tragedy. The only thing I could do was post the base URL. What in the shit? If I’m 100% honest, this really pissed me off. So much so that I almost said well screw it and I’m just not gonna post the show notes to Facebook anymore.

I mean, OK I’ve heard people say that Facebook is now for old people a.k.a. I guess generation X. I should be promoting on things like Instagram and TikTok. Maybe but here’s the thing I didn’t grow up with a camera in my pocket. It doesn’t occur to me to take a picture of something.

And don’t even get me started on video. Again, video cameras were clunky huge things that you had to carry around in a briefcase when I was growing up, and oh by the way, they cost thousands of dollars even back then.

There wasn’t such a barrier to entry to audio and everybody listen to the radio. Transitioning into the Internet was no big deal cause I just looked at it like a bigger radio right, OK but then at some point everybody stopped going to individual webpages and we decided we had to drink this Kool-Aid called social media.

 What the fuck people take some of the creative juices out of a lot of things. 

Then we get this tool, which is beautiful yes we can connect with millions and millions of people awesome right on but we’re so overloaded with garbage that we have to be reminded. Hey Lucas did a really killer radio show last night.

 I shouldn’t have to do that. You all know that I post once a week. I’ve given you the tools on our website so you can stay connected and not have to use this piece of garbage. Besides, why are we letting 26 year-old kids in a stupid algorithm police us?

Oh yeah, that’s right. It’s because it some point somebody somewhere decided that we had to be all fuzzy feeling. Look everybody is different. Everybody is special in their own way. I’m disabled. Do you hear me walking around or rolling around whining about being in a wheelchair no.

I realize there are certain groups of people that are having a hard time right now because this country is full of ignorance. Believe me when I say I got your back if you’re having problems and there a legitimate problems I’m your sheepdog.

But we’re about to be thrown into a hornets nest in 2025. Maybe we should stop whining about the shit that doesn’t really matter and start figuring out how to work together to fix this broken system.

Let’s start by banning social media. Yeah this is gonna hurt some people or at least some people’s reality but you know what we survived without it.

Come on over the garden hose is hooked up. I got mustard and bread and bologna and there’s a pile of dirt in my backyard.

Another way to say that rub some fucking dirt on it and get back in the fight.