The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV at least -implied- a followup on that whole End Fossil Fuels thing, since we are still technically in Climate Week. He's disappointed that EFF didn't do the same. They never did come back on newsradio to say something to the effect of, well Joe Biden didn't do X, Y or Z, so now we get to tell people, don't vote for him next year. It's not atypical for TSV to observe that those activist types who berate the general population for its lack of courage fail to demonstrate any on their own part. Was that all just political hype that PR people for EFF behind the scenes went to program directors for newsradio stations to say, listen, we need you to cover our movement, and place the microphone next to people therein who have -very important things- to say about next year's election. TSV doesn't think he necessarily scared them off by proclaiming that they'll regret taking his President away from him if it came to that. TSV is only so small, and is not likely to have exacted the kind of crickets we heard from EFF after Biden went back to Washington. But now TSV gets to turn page to the subject of BBC 4 LW. While he agrees that the BBC needs to stay on longwave to keep people informed both of emergencies but also current events, he doesn't particularly approve of the nibbling around the edges that pro-longwave is trying to use to convince the BBC to stay on longwave. Stuff like, well if you end transmissions or take down the transmitter, it'll cause heating service problems for homes in the area, or maybe precipitate an accidental nuclear attack. It's the same lack of courage TSV saw with EFF, that pro-longwave isn't willing to take the bull by the horns and encourage both licensed and extra-licensed amateurs to do a 'pirate' syndication after the cutoff date, or at least threaten to do so leading up to the cutoff. Though TSV generally encourages amateurs of all stripes to keep it within the law, the situation with BBC longwave he sees as requiring civil disobedience. What he means by pirate syndication is about syndicating BBC 4 from a web stream to a transmission on the longwave frequency, maybe numerously (and surreptitiously) so that some level of comparable coverage is achieved. TSV says to do this after the cutoff, but not yet until then. If Ofcom comes after them for it, TSV thinks the amateurs may have a case in their own defense at least socially, if not legally. Either syndication or for towns and cities to file lawsuits to get BBC 4 back on longwave or stay on longwave. There are options, and they don't involve what TSV sees as immature and immaterial and ultimately uneffective stunts he seeing going on right now.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV is no fool. He can see End Fossil Fuels for what it really is, and no, he knows full well it's -not- about ending fossil fuels -or- global warming. It's about ending Joe Biden, what with the defamations he's heard from them, and it makes him concerned about the state of democracy. If EFF succeeds in ending Joe Biden, TSV will not recognize his country four years from now. Otherwise, he wonders why they made AOC into their keynote speaker when they should be demonstrating outside -her- offices as much as Joe Biden's. This comes two days after Bernie delivered an exaggerated albeit well meaning speech at the UAW rallies. TSV sees it as impossible for a reasonable person not to see the apparent biases in these events, and it's only Tuesday. What he just glimpsed on the fronts of the journalistically depraved newspapers was mention of this being Climate Week, but apparently he doesn't see anyone feeling free to stand for ending climate change it whatever way suits them. Instead they have to lockstep to a charismatic corps of leaders who can never be wrong. So what's happening next week? Is it going to be Issue Y Week, and if so, will the same people make the same kinds of corner-the-other-person demands they're doing this week? TSV wonders, because here's an example. An apparent hipster-ish voice on the radio TSV hears as saying something to the effect of, we demand that Joe Biden declare a global climate emergency at the UN general assembly. And let's see he does do that. All TSV sees them saying is, well he only declared an emergency because -we- said he should, so therefore he really doesn't mean it. That's a very handy way TSV sees them as moving the goal posts, and how Biden is always wrong. TSV will monitor the rest of this week for further defamations and stunts, and he will get me the Happy Bachelor to respond accordingly where and when necessary. He hasn't yet decided whether he'll vote for Biden again or maybe write in Liz Cheney, but still he will serve notice. If the anti-Biden progressives take his President away from him, he'll see to it that they'll deeply regret it.

I the Happy Bachelor already did two base shares with the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV just a couple hours ago, but he's just now getting around to things he's wanted to say having been too occupied to do so for a while. But here he is talking about Danelo Cavalcante. It was on YouTube, which of course is visual, but he saw that local Philly news station there. Judging from the first half of the video, he didn't think they'd say anything he didn't already know. But then they got to the second half, and the red-haired presenter talked about how the investigation will still continue, because they want to ask him about things like what kind of help he could have gotten to stay on the loose for two weeks. The presenter mentioned that Cavalcante was used to living off the grid, e.g., having spent a month in the jungles of Brazil, so that helped TSV form a theoretical hypothesis. TSV believes Cavalcante is a Dark Amateur, in that he may have gotten help from a two-way that may have been in his backpack, and TSV thinks it's possible that Cavalcante used that two-way to tune into a clandestine numbers station associated with a transnat that itself may be associated with the "crink axis" (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea). Could Cavalcante be an actual spy? And if so, who/what was he spying on/for? That's not to say Cavalcante is necessarily a good spy. Look at Lee Harvey Oswald, TSV reminds us. Oswald tried to spy for both Cuba and the Soviet Union, and look how well that turned out. But there's no reason for TSV not to believe that someone with survival skills such as Cavalcante, an apparently twisted genius and supervillain to boot, couldn't also decode FSK, CW, FAX and other signals in the Amateur and Aero bands, in a sort of numbers chasing. Was he talking to the people who helped him? And were some of those people who helped him well out of the area, like possibly within the Crink Axis? Or maybe Crink has employed surreptitious AI to help out operatives in the field. Once TSV hears on audio about reps from the FCC and/or the CIA coming into Coventry County to the facility where Cavalcante is held for questioning, TSV's definitely going to think, aha (!), it's become international.

This is regarding the latest radio bulletin on audio, and maybe at least one previous one. The bulletin referred to a Spanish newspaper talking about the BBC, but the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV disagrees that the BBC necessarily has a struggle for "relevance." In fact, the BBC World Service's reporting being second-to-none as a kind of utility station on shortwave TSV sees as a beacon in the darkness of misinformation and the cesspool of visual and of Tic-Toc-ish social media. Of course even though this is since the start of the war in Ukraine, TSV sees the BBC's problems having to do with -identity- more than with relevance. He sees the BBC trying to be both Reporters Without Borders and Clear Channel Communications. That's kind of like trying to be both inside -and- outside the house. It's one or the other. There's no such thing as a "little bit pregnant." TSV also believes the Spanish newspaper doesn't need to worry about the BBC as having to compete with "Rupert Murdock's empire," whose legal liability among other things, revealed that empire as instrumental in the January 6 riots. Just do regular reporting and tell the truth. Even though TSV still remembers when BBC Newshour tried to tell people in 2014 that nurses getting the ebola virus somehow means the precautions they needed to take not to get the virus were somehow not effective, TSV likes much better what's he's hearing from the BBC now, whether that's at least the bulletin and the first 30 seconds of Newshour, segments from Newsday, or when he gets to get Newsroom to play back for him again. That's the winner right there. No need to get into a race to the bottom with the Murdock Empire, which clearly seems headed for outright bankruptcy. TSV doubts Business Radio will indicate there will be any interested buyers, not even Carl Icahn, or that other activist investor who's name escapes him.

This is regarding the latest radio bulletin on audio, and maybe at least one previous one. The bulletin featured members of online discussion groups lamenting religious stations broadcasting on shortwave from the US to the rest of the world. TSV hears the bulletin say the members actually believe that radio listeners in Europe will somehow think US is just a bunch of religious fanatics. Who -says- these things (?) TSV wonders. After all people in Europe are smart enough to know that, no, Americans are not religious fanatics any more than they're a bunch of gun-toting cowboys. TSV credits the world's citizens for rejecting stereotypes, but the one thing he thinks is problematic is the phrase "secular humanism." He heard the lamenters also say that they believe there needs to be more "secular humanism" on shortwave, but he wonders what's so humanistic about secularism anyway? And by contrast, what's so inhumane about religion or being religious? Not only has he seen secularism contribute to the personal corruption of the 2010s that among other things caused him to lose his job and eventually lead to the pandemic, but TSV makes the point of listening to 1300 AM the gospel station near where we live after he's done hearing a given current bulletin. He always wants to hear the Hail Mary passage 9.30am where the serene lady announcer says, Mother Mary pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. He wants to hear this line at least twice, because he often sees it applying our still personally corrupt and immoral society, and he thinks, please pray that our sinner's society will overcome its sins and instead embrace righteousness and devotionism, amidst the details of said sins he's hearing on newsradio which he -needs- to know about. There's a lot to unpack for TSV in finding more devotional resources specifically on shortwave, but suffice it to say that his impression is that if it weren't for religiousness and religious programming on the radio, all we will have is the cesspool that is the Internet. That's how he thinks "secular humanism" is actually inconsistent with, as that rock song goes, the spirit of radio.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvanglical/TSV takes it that Biden's back in Washington, busy getting Biden-bashed by politicians having a primary debate of some sort. This is the point where TSV goes back into what he believes really went wrong with the wildfires in Hawaii nearly a week and a half ago. He criticized and condemned the media's failure to look into what happened to people's smartphones in Hawaii, and why those phones apparently did not issue an emergency alert for people to evacuate immediately. Of course it's "implied" that it's somehow the same failure associated with the sirens that TSV referred to last week, but that's just not good enough. TSV talked about there being an unholy relationship between the media and tech companies, and how reporting on the failure of smartphones would run afoul of that relationship, instead of actually reporting facts to the people. And here's where he gets to talk about how Hawaii's standard of living can be described as upper-middle class, and as such he sees a lot more dependence on smartphones for people living there. So it appears credible enough to him that a given person was sitting on their porch or in their bungalow living room doing Tic-Toc, running multiple videos at once, as per society's information-overload-of-the-self credo, when that person catches sight out of the corner of their eye of a tree branch having caught flame, and then seeing smoke from over the horizon behind that forest they then would go, wow I'd better get out of there. That was one of the lucky ones. Others he sees actually getting consumed in on doing texting with others also apparently not aware of forest fires, and so not even one of them he sees as saying, oh by the way, you -do- know there's a forest fire going on, right? And of course the recipient of that message keeps on texting 20 plus people TSV sees until that person is entirely engulfed in flames. At no time did he hear about either person's phone issuing an alert along with the EAS alert tones. And this is in a tropical setting, the kind of place where TSV most discourages people from relying on their smartphones, because you're already surrounded by paradise. If the media can't research what went wrong, TSV's hoping that maybe some public figures and politicians would try to do so in committee at some point. If the factory setting of most smartphones is for emergency alerts to be set to OFF, TSV thinks that's something the people should know about.
There's a lot to unpack for the Heir/Tropical Soulvanglical/TSV as of this writing. So he takes it that Biden's back in Washington, busy getting Biden-bashed by politicians having a primary debate of some sort. That was the point where TSV goes back into what he believes really went wrong with the wildfires in Hawaii nearly a week and a half ago, but first things first. The same media he wants to go after with respect to Hawaii went full secularist on that pedestrian crash story. That media says they believe that that woman who ran into those pedestrians muttered under her breath that "God made me do it." So yes, -of course- TSV has to believe they'd go there, because of those wacky religious people! Of course if it ever turns out she said no such thing, TSV still thinks that the media will still stand by their "reporting." No, God doesn't want you to run into people, TSV wants to remind people, God wants you to all love one another. Looks like TSV will have to address the situation in Hawaii separately.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvanglical/TSV didn't want to weigh in on the tragic wildfires in Hawaii, but the media's failures leave him no choice. TSV wanted to wait until after the next week and a half or until there's an official visitation to Hawaii to assess the damage, whichever comes first, because he didn't want to seem like he's grandstanding when over a hundred people died as of this writing, because obviously doing so would be in poor taste. But the media took advantage of TSV's inherent decency and conscience, leaving him seeing none of either in the media as of today. So here's what and why TSV has to say about that. It has to do with what he sees as the media using the sirens issue as a distraction and apparent excuse not to investigate whether and why people's smartphones didn't issue an emergency alert. TSV believes no such alert on people's phones was issued, and here's what leads him to believe that. If such an alert was issued, the failure of the sirens to go off would be secondary, and the media wouldn't have gone out of their way to hold a tense press conference with that FEMA official, and TSV also believes the media wouldn't have tried to cast aspersions on the "real" reason why the official resigned after the press conference. What if it -was- a health issue? And even if it wasn't, what right can TSV possibly see as the media having in trying to pull an Ed Snowden to say, "See we told you so"? Whether the media "told you so" TSV sees as abjectly immaterial compared to the media's failures to investigate the smartphones. So why was there this failure? What else could TSV possibly see other than the media feeling the pressure from big tech not to do that investigation in case doing so casts a pall on the use of smartphones as a somehow "reliable" information source at least in the case of an emergency? And what else could TSV possibly see other than big tech leaning on the media to push big tech's one-thing-shall-replace-another narrative? Because what if those people might have still lived if they got the proper issuances from their smartphones? Most of all, why does it have to come down to ordinary joes like TSV to redress -the media- for grievances like the way one would redress -the politicians- for grievances? Is there not a first amendment right on part of the people to hold the media accountable? Otherwise, why does the media pride itself on calling itself the so-called "Fourth Estate," when surely the first amendment does not give them a blank check to do or say what they want as if the people's opinions on their reporting or failure thereof don't matter? So unless the media grows a couple and do actual investigations on people's failed smartphones in Hawaii, TSV proclaims they should expect nothing less than a big shame-fest on their hands.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV has been saying since perhaps 2017 that Trump has to be held accountable for the sake of the children. And then the politicians asked him, well what about Hunter Biden? Shouldn't we hold him accountable too? And then TSV said, yes, we should hold Hunter Biden accountable. And then the politicians stopped silent in their tracks, because TSV demonstrated his tropical conservatism. They actually appear to TSV to think that all court trials are -solely- about politics, even when you're paying a parking ticket, and hence all you need to do is put out a whataboutism out there to try to get people to recant their desire for justice in the world, and hence renounce their stewardship for the next generation. Because they solely think politically, the politicians were trying to make it as if TSV does as well, and he doesn't. He's not going to pretend he doesn't have biases, but he doesn't live by them like the politicians live by theirs. If they truly think all justice is -only- about politics, here's TSV's whataboutisms for them in turn. What about Rex Heuermann? What about Sam Bankman-Fried? What about the juvenile who's accused of a hate crime homicide in Brooklyn? TSV is cynical enough about the politicians to believe that if any of those defendants donated to their coffers, the politicians will even defend them as well and make excuses accordingly. TSV challenges them to prove otherwise.

Riddle the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV this: which one is not like the others? Trump, Rex Heuermann, Sam Bankman-Fried. Here's a clue TSV is sending your way. Heuermann and Bankman-Fried are not running for public office in an attempt to get out of criminal charges, but TSV's puzzled that they have not yet tried to do so. Factually legally, running for public office is not a get-out-of-free-jail-card, but TSV sees our state of politics as making it possible politically. He can't see how it's not, even though he entertains how Heuermann and Bankman-Fried likely have better lawyers. Now here's another riddle TSV has for you: which one of the above defendants is accused of more crimes than the other two put together?

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV makes the point of listening to Glenn Hauser through his feature flip phone every week for coverage -about- radio and not just -by- radio. That said, TSV acknowledges the vagaries of call-em-as-I-hear-em type journalism accordingly, so when reported online discussion groups try to talk down Audacy, the owner of two of three newsradio stations TSV listens to first thing in the morning, TSV has the right and the duty to question claims of Audacy's impending demise, the same way TSV successfully challenged claims of AM radio's at large impending demise, by researching how really the only thing substantively reported about Audacy's troubles was their delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. TSV points out, though, that they were delisted for offering a low stock price, not for their stock going down, and in any case they're still on the Russell 500. He's not saying Audacy is here to stay, because of course there will always be a new buyer if that ever becomes necessary. Regardless of what Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg try to get their marketing trolls to say about AM radio on the discussion groups, there being 40 or 50 million listeners on AM is still a big enough demographic chunk not to leave money on the table, regardless of whether AM itself is as big of a cash cow as Space Laser Social Media or Smartphone Clickbait. TSV will -never- crawl to either of those for first hand information about current events. As an immediate example after the Glenn Hauser reports on Audacy, the troll attacks on AM radio he sees as standing in stark contrast to the latest alarmism about the CPB, which also helps fund NPR, whose journalistic integrity TSV finds questionable at best for both their attacks on Biden and what he sees as disinformation about the leadup to Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year and a half ago. Supporting the CPB he sees as generally the right thing to do, but he sees the alarmism thereof to be highly misplaced because there's mixed control in the government between the two parties, and CPB he doesn't see likely to die, and he hopes the activists aren't looking past NPR's quetionability. He's hoping that the same activists also demand that NPR cease its status as a mouthpiece for Musk and Zuckerberg and big tech and Russian and Chinese and similarly adversarial global interests around the world. Once the CPB is saved, TSV doesn't believe the activists will move to make demands of NPR accordingly, but instead try to pursue other guilt trips on the populace.

If something in fact does happen on that submarine where those billionaires are, the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV isn't so sure he's going to shed a tear. He reminds us that those people knew full well what they were getting into when they signed their lives away on that one piece of paper going in, so he objects to *his tax dollars* going toward a mount of a heroic rescue of some sort. He's also calling on the entire press corps to turn in their Fourth Estate Moniker in what he sees as biased reporting on apparently how 'important' these guys are. What he asks is, what about the four people who are *already dead* when that e-bike repair shop they were living over burst into flames? He also asks us to remember what was written, that a rich man has less of chance to get into Heaven than a camel does to walk through an eye of a needle. The four people who died because of the bike fire TSV counts amoung those who've actually *served* their communities and devoted love to their families. These are people like firefighters, EMTs, nurses, custodians, landscapers, and food and store clerks. These are people who on their days off devoted their time to their families for whom they're working hard for the rest of the week to make sure everyone has a roof over their head and food in their mouth. TSV contrasts these to those sheltered, spoiled and obnoxious poor little rich types who get the press to cover concepts such as The Power Of Positive Thinking. He tells us not to be too surprised to see special coverage on visual about how "you can visit the Mona Lisa, you can launch into outer space, you can even take a submarine to visit the ruins of the Titanic, if, and only if, you have The Power Of Positive Thinking." So any time TSV hears the phrase The Power Of Positive Thinking, he's brought back to when he was made to lose his job eight years ago during a 'great economy.' And just by chance those billionaires do get saved, TSV reminds us all that for every one billionaire that's saved from that sub, it's 100 of the whole lot of us who will inevitably die in tragic circumstances. The rest of us don't have the monetary power or fancy connections to get 24 hour coverage of 'will the nurse mom of three make it.'

So it certainly hasn't been uneventful, what with the new charges against Trump and smoke from the Canadian forest fires, etc. But the one thing that the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV was listening for, particularly this past Tuesday, was hearing on audio about The Tenth Anniversary Of Ed Snowden. They even did a Today In History that day and talked about things like the D-Day landings and a jewelry heist or something back in 2015. No even a peep about Ed Snowden. It seems poignant to TSV that history seems to see the jewelry heist as more of a thing than Ed Snowden, maybe more like Ed Has-Been. But this was -not- what you were hearing 10 years ago. Everything was Ed Snowden, the "Relevations Of Ed Snowden," etc. TSV doesn't remember the 10th Anniversary of the Pentagon Papers as -not- mentioning Daniel Ellsberg, though admittedly he doesn't remember them mentioning Ellsberg in 1981 or so, since that was just a little before TSV's time before he followed current events a little more. He's pretty sure they'd talk about the 10th Anniversary of the Pentagon Papers the same way they talk about an anniversary of 9/11. So all reporters on audio who -never- talked about Ed Snowden every June 6, TSV wonders, were they really onto something? Did they know why Ed Snowden wasn't really a thing since whatever was the first year they decided not to talk about him? If so, TSV would very much like to know, because he can't assume he can just "move on" from Ed Snowden if in fact "everyone else" has if there's that one year in the future when you see Snowdenmania come alive all over again. Ed Snowden didn't just leak the surveillance program. He also stole other classified documents, but it appears as though the same can't be said about Daniel Ellsberg. As far as TSV knows, Daniel Ellsberg -only- leaked the Pentagon Papers, and nothing else of confidentiality, so maybe that's an incident of ethical restraint, and maybe that's why history's been kinder to Ellsberg than to Ed Snowden. It indicates to TSV that the press understands the need for classified confidentiality except in cases of reasonable questions about ethics. The press was more prepared to do the Pentagon Papers than to ever reveal anything about, for example, American spies in the then Soviet Union or Vietnam. So on an ethical scale from most to least, the TSV sees them going in the order of Daniel Ellsberg (ethical), Ed Snowden (semi-ethical), Scooter Libby (unethical). TSV will have to think about the above over time before he's got further thoughts to get me the Mentor to talk about.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV doesn't make it a habit of getting me the Mentor/Happy Bachelor to talk about his workplace helping customers. But a verbal disagreement between one of the workers and one of the customers for him highlighted the importance of walking with principle and propriety and forsaking personal corruption. He's not going to get into any details as to who was right and who was wrong, but he perceived an importance among some of the customers at least that workers in general abide by a propriety that TSV as per walking with principle tries to adhere to every day of his working life. Not everybody agrees with that, because instead of doing one's best to follow instructions and expectations like TSV tries to, there's a tendency reflected by today's corrupt society to try to get away with -not- following instructions and expectations or doing one's due diligence accordingly. This is why he believes that the Judge Not decree is often misinterpreted. It's not about not having an opinion others may perceive as judgmental, as much as actually -carrying out judgment- is not the job of mere mortals. Only one can judge, so those people TSV sees running around in today's society saying things like "I can do anything I want," or "I can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and no-one can stop me" will, in fact, be stopped accordingly. But TSV believes it's still within his right to take the position that they should not think for a second their lives are not being watched, as per the Holy Joe comic strip.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV caught Bloomberg Radio trying to carry astroturf for big tech. He heard them do a "report" on the supposed dangers of "check washing," and their "contact" in the report recommends doing all payments electronically as a supposed "safe" alternative. This is about four months after an astroturf TSV heard on another station about favoring card-tapping over card-stripping, and here's how you know it's an astroturf on audio. They never repeat the report more than once in a row. TSV saw it both with the checkwashing report and the card-tapping report. They don't want the reports to be open to scrutiny, and hence for people to find out that these are not true PSA's. They're just infomercials for big tech possibly because people in general are justifiably not sold on card tapping or exclusive electronic payments. In contrast, TSV recommends -against- overreliance on electronic payments or card tapping. These practices will expose you to hacking by the Kremlin, including but not limited to being victimized by ransomware. That's a far more likelihood than some Giuliani type trying to take your check out of your payment to the power company, and trying to wash out all but your signature so as to give himself free money at your expense.
The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV has observed the Ed Snowden Caucus flying its proverbial vultures around the White House -in expectation- that Biden will blink with respect to the debt ceiling. TSV doesn't know what the final agreement is, but he's reasonably optimistic that we won't "default," as per visual's wishes so they can go sensationalize. He doesn't think it's as cut-and-dried as visual portrays. He sees Biden and Kevin McCarthy saying things like well if you give up this we'll agree to raise the ceiling by that. Biden may agree to -only- give up things that are not in and of themselves that controversial to give up, but will earn a bombblast from the Ed Snowdens all the same. Let's say Biden agrees to raise the debt ceiling by 8% if he gives up his pinking shears. Once he does that, the Ed Snowdens will bombblast him for giving up pinking shears, and will make a big deal out of pinking shears that they never did before. All of a sudden the public will have to be "educated" as to what pinking shears are and why it's a "bad thing" that Biden had to give them up. But here's one thing TSV knows he'll never hear from either visual or the Ed Snowdens. Once the debt ceiling is raised, Biden is absolutely free to take back anything he has to give up, so once he takes back his pinking shears, not a peep out of the Ed Snowdens. TSV will himself corner the Ed Snowdens in the halls of the Capitol for comment, and all they're going to have to say is, well it doesn't matter that he got his pinking shears back, because he should never have given them away to begin with. Anything to maintain such a fanatical purism.