Happy 4th, Folks!
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I know it’s a tough one this year given that the nature of America has gone a bit sour. Democracy is crumbling and fascism beckons but you can still enjoy some food, friends and fire-based entertainment, right? Maybe celebrate the America you want to have. Envision it. Maybe make some of that fire-based activity some kind of magic burning ritual to rid the country of demons and monsters. We need to do everything we can.
I’ll just give my yearly advice. Mind your digits. It was risky when we were younger to light that brick of Black Cats while you were holding it before you threw it in the air and scrambled for cover as lit firecrackers flew haphazardly everywhere. You’re older and slower now so light those babies on the ground.
Don’t light anything anywhere that can ignite the entire state you are in.
Don’t burn your meat. Watch that grill.
Don’t get so wasted you die somehow or permanently destroy your relationships with friends of loved ones.
Don’t fire any guns at humans.
Do something nice for someone you don’t like.
Today is conspiracy theory day on the show. I talk to Robert Guffey about the long history of different conspiracy theories and how many of them have been assimilated into the new fascist origin story of Qanon. I was kind of an amateur conspiracy buff when I was out of my mind back in the day. I believed a few. It took a while to get my brain back. Robert’s new book is called Operation Minndfuck: Qanon and the Cult of Donald Trump.
On Thursday I talk to actor and now director Joanna Gleason about her dad, Monty Hall, her acting and her new movie.
Enjoy!
Boomer, Monkey and LaFonda live!
Love,
Maron
Mind Your Digits.
