Closing Time Podcast

05/11/2024

Voting is not personal expression. It is pragmatic. If you cannot
See the real difference between white Christian fascism and pro business liberalism (which needs to be heavily regulated in my estimation but we need the political will to create) then I beg you to read project 2025 or some other bits of news about these two candidates. Your daughters are counting on you. Your sons too.

30/10/2024

If you’re Hispanic, black, poor, lgbtq, middle class, or a non n**i rich person and you vote for Trump you need your head examined.

04/10/2024

So having been through this and researched the phenomenon of conspiracy theorizing I will say this. The number one facet that aligns all of the ones I’ve heard over the last ten years is that the government cannot help you. This is absolutely false.

I have a conspiracy theory that these theories originate from a cabbal of ultra capitalist deregulation/possibly libertarian think tanks. Like an alternative pr campaign for a film. Each time the underlying theme is distrust of the government’s motivation regarding a crisis and actually helping the people. So….conspiracy time:

The ACA a flawed compromise between single payer health care and the free for all s**tshow health care was before scared the s**t out of conservatives. All efforts must be ramped up to continue the Reagan/nixon policy of depicting the government and its ability to help Americans as incompetent at best and malicious at worst. The pandemic policies of direct payments to individuals, paid cobra and other programs that were more easily paid for by tax monies as compared to the corporate hand outs, corporate welfare, low corporate taxes, relatively low capital gains taxes (this is how most wealthy people pay taxes which is a much lower rate than workers pay). Remember to see taxes differed or unpaid as equivalent to spending.
The 2020-2022 policies were a step back to new deal or great society policies.

Some facts. Only an entity as large as government can enforce equality. And “they” (wealthy, the cabal I am speaking of) don’t want that. So every time there is an emergency “they” generate conspiracies to discredit the help the government is giving to discredit the gov’t in really the one place that I think we’d all agree they are necessary. Major catastrophes. And they are gobbled up by a populace trained on Reagan’s words “the most frightening words are I’m from the government and I’m here to help you”(possibly paraphrased but accurate to the spirit of the quote)

All of this would have remained under the rocks of don’t tread on me scumbags and the fringes if it weren’t for:

The New York Times complicity in the march to the Iraq war in 2002-2003. Though academia and the press had colluded before to manufacture consent (Noam Chomsky, also a victim of conspiracy or fact. If he spent time on Epstein island it doesn’t discredit the veracity of his words. And it seems former presidents Trump and Clinton as well as RFK jr were big fans but I digress)

So…we have the conflagration of moneyed right wing entities (like the recent scandal the Russia was paying time pool and Dave Rubin to push anti Ukraine stories) and the left’s critic of mainstream news veracity to create an epistemological crisis where we find it hard to know what’s real. Add to that the destruction of scientific literacy via public school defunding and school voucher programs etc and you have the boiling point you have today where nothing is trusted and influencers paid for and perhaps directed by far right donors and organizations are filling the gap with these conspiracies designed to erode trust in the public sector while elevating the private sector.

In my opinion.

29/09/2024

Water:

Free water will be distributed from 2p-5p TODAY at One World Brewing West. 520 Haywood Road.
bring a container(s)
Lowe’s on Smoky Park has water
Pisgah brewing is filling jugs
Greg Eagle was filling water yesterday but seems they may have ran out last night (Saturday)
Leicester: Jeff’s Auto Sales

Wifi:
Citizen Vinyl
The Plug Shop

Starlink Stations for Public Use

SPOT 1:
DoubleTree Hilton Downtown
199 Haywood
SSID: SORTOR STARLINK
Pass: ncstrong

SPOT 2:
Asheville Shelter
Ferguson Building
340 Victoria Rd
SSID: HALL STARLINK
Pass: ncstrong

Search and Rescue: 2-1-1

Candler residents: Montmorenci United Methodist Church food box distribution today 12/29 at 4:00pm
In parking lot of laundry mat
1523 smokey park hwy
(Limit per car, only until gone)

Spread this for ANYONE in the affected area.

22/08/2024

Is RFK jr out? Is he endorsing Trump? If so whatever good will the man built up being a lefty who helped environmental causes will be wiped away for good. And for a position in weirdos 2024 cabinet….holy s**t. Can this guy fall any lower?

28/06/2024

It is 1968 all over again. An embattled president embroiled in an evil war being called to step down. Trump will ruin this country and Biden’s hubris and age may hand it to him.

29/01/2024

I call on the Biden administration to immediately federalize the Texas national guard and arrest governor abbot for manslaughter of women and children who bled to death caught in barbed wire on the border under abbots direct orders not to save their lives.

22/12/2021

Like anakin skywalker you can take this heroes journey with us by listening to our new episode. Out NOW!

22/12/2021

Episode 31 Is out RIGHT NOW!!! go listen! Like Subscribe. Submit. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

We have a long discussion about Queerness and outing culture. We discuss our own personal experiences as well as the histories we are aware of from decades gone by. Then we ask the eternal question. Is Republican senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina gay? This comes up while discussing the meri...

16/10/2021

Go listen to episode 29!!!!!

08/10/2021

Here is a new Episode!!! EAT MY LITTLE BEBES

We take a deep dive on Swingers clubs and parties in NYC and AVL. Chris discusses his experiences and yearning for the swinger's clubs and parties that existed pre-pandemic. It's a wild ride through the logistics of how they work and such. No he doesn't talk about s*x in swinger's clubs or parties.....

02/06/2021

THE LOST EPISODE is out now!!!!!!

It is rare that we get a special treat in this world....yet HERE IT IS! THE LOST EPISODE!!! Many Bothans died to get this mysteriously lost episode to us. Originally recorded in the fall of 2020 this is quite a snapshot of where we were at days after the vice presidential debate. Remember the fly on...

28/05/2021

New Episode. Check it out all you cool little Fonzies.

Well hey baby, Where you been? We've been here. Workin'. Playin'. Livin'. Transitions. Always so many transitions. Waiting for the sweet embrace of death to take us home, into the nothingness. We talk about stuff. We're funny and vulnerable little bebes taking our time and space in the world. There....

25/03/2021

Episode 27 is up on Anchor and Spotify and we're diggin' into QAnon (again), Tinder bots, and ALL THE BUFFETS. Put your eatin' gloves on we love a buffet

17/03/2021

Episode 26 is live NOW and we have another riveting installment of Darien's Smells for everyone. Listen on Spotify and Anchor; find your own smells to get involved at home. Tell me what they are I am interested. please

16/03/2021

Episode 26 Is Dropped!!!! This is a good one, with some mixed emotions as Elijah moves away. Check it out.

We discuss an unfortunate incident in which Elijah accidently (we think it was on purpose) hits a brave veteran with some very powerful rocket. He apologizes profusely. Still. Chris waxes poetic on The Wonderwheel, a large Ferris wheel on Coney Island, NYC, as well as the possibility of running a ch...

08/03/2021

happy birthday to E$ he turned 25 on Friday and didn't call in for the podcast even though we sent him a couple of messages but not too many

04/03/2021

Episode 24 is out now! Listen on Anchor or Spotify! Listen first on Anchor and then listen again on Spotify, with your family around the fire as a gentle snow falls.