As you may very well know, we haven't done audio for nearly four years. However, we anticipate that's going to change, though the format may be more pared down and slightly different. But it'll, among other things, exemplify the tropical conservatism of adhering to principle. Furthermore, we anticipate being what we call a High Frequency Candidate, for the sake of those radio amateurs wanting to do micro- or personal broadcasting, and are in need of content. This is not likely to happen for months yet. But as the Heir keeps making progress on his tropical soul DIY mp3 player, and we get closer to the deliverance and light of tropical soul, it'll be the next logical step once we finally get to tropical soul. The Heir's been DX'ing the shortwave bands along with collecting knowledge about what kinds of transmissions are out there, so he and we look forward to see what we can do with shortwave in some form. We haven't decided whether we want to get a license yet. Keep checking in, people.

The Heir heard on audio yesterday or the day before about how a majority of Florida residents affected by the storm don't have flood insurance. He doesn't think it's about residents wrongly thinking that their homeowner's insurance would cover flood damage. He believes it's a corollary to what he said about people having to put basic needs on their credit card because they spent the money meant for non-discretionaries toward aggressively marketed discretionaries. In both cases, the Heir believes the people were confused by the "power of positive thinking," and that if you've got the "power of positive thinking," that somehow means you don't need flood insurance if you live in Florida, regardless of whether or not a hurricane is on its way. As the Heir finds out more and more about how ordinary people were being lied to by tech- and other marketers, it's obvious now to the Heir that on a culture-wide basis, you reap what you sow. Granted, he wants the people to recover properly no matter what mistakes they made in the past, but once they've recovered, almost certainly they'll make the same mistakes again in the future because the Heir believes the marketers will return. Florida residents will -not- buy flood insurance in the future in meaningful numbers, and people will -continue- to put basic needs on their credit card when the new marketing campaigns heat up again.

Generally speaking, when it comes to Ed Snowden these days, the Heir isn't so inclined to come after the guy himself as much as his progressive apologists. But now that Ed Snowden's been granted citizenship in a country adversarial to the U.S., and because the progressives claim to be against said country in its assault against Ukraine, the Heir sees this as an opportunity for the progressives to throw Ed Snowden under the bus once and for all. He demands nothing short of that, and he won't accept the progressives saying something to the effect of we want the Ed Snowden from 2013, not the Ed Snowden from 2022. The Heir says you should forsake both. If you don't, the Heir will be reminded that he himself is not progressive at all, but what he calls Tropically Conservative. We should probably also bring back that banner of solidarity now that Putin claims to now own eastern Ukraine. We should have the banner say that eastern Ukraine and Crimea are -Ukrainian-, period. We, too, see the 'referendum' as a sham, but it's not a true referendum. It's just soldiers forcing people to sign what they don't mean under duress, so the Heir's wondering if Zelensky's weak in not invalidating said 'referendum' as the rightful President of Ukraine. The Heir's hoping for more, because this is just a mental trick that everyone's falling for, including those who see the campaign as a sham. The Heir thinks we should call it what it is, a mental military campaign. Undo Putin's hypnosis.

The Heir heard on audio, on more than one installment of that business news minute, that people are racking up credit card debt just to pay for the basics. He's not going to say "sucks to be you, man" in an apathetic sort of way, but he does caution how this is the end result of the replacement marketing of the 2010s. He sees people actually -believing- that "one thing shall replace another" and that "it's the power of positive thinking" in about 2014 and 2015 respectively. The Heir refused to go along with either, clearly seeing both the mental and the financial risk, and the larger culture retaliated against him as a result in a new world order type fashion by causing the company he once worked at at the time to go out of business and for him to get laid off. He's now enjoying -reasonable- success at the Bland Barns Catering Counter, but he hasn't forgotten the past. It appears to him that instead of taking the opportunity of a then "great economy" to save and invest, people instead ended up spending their money on constant smartphone and giant TV upgrades, possibly as an effort to keep up with the Joneses. The Heir tunes into Business Radio 7:30am to get the daily changing backdrop each day he can to help him look over the horizon, and he's pretty sure that once inflationary and recessionary pressures go away, predatory marketers on behalf of a variety of high-end retail types will be back in full force telling people they're behind the times if they don't buy discretionary products and services, because it's the power of positive thinking. It's going to happen again, and the Heir's more concerned about that than today's inflation and recession combined. He wants to ask people what they want the most: keeping up with the Joneses, or making ends meet? He hopes people will choose common sense in the future.

The Heir believes he -personally- dodged a bullet when Judge Dearie came back and said, well I'm presuming the documents to still be classified because I'm not informed otherwise that they were ever -de-classified. Again, we're talking about the epidemic in personal corruption, and it was just random chance that this particular judge was conscientious about something the Heir thinks was missing thus far in the conversation in the INN, and that's how the judge knew he needed to have -clearance- to see classified documents, which means in order for him to see them, he either a) needed said clearance, or b) the documents needed to be declassified. But the Heir's wondering what's really stopping Trump from saying, well I want a -different- documents master since Judge Dearie came out as a loose cannon for me. Someone, the Heir believes Trump will say, who doesn't -care- whether they have clearance or not for the documents, clearance shmearance! How about -you- Aileen Cannon (??), Trump the Heir believes will ask. That's pretty much Trump's ace in the hole, because the Heir doesn't see Aileen Cannon as caring about whether one has clearance to classified documents, -or- recusing herself from a moral quandary. The Heir wonders what the 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals would say when Merrick Garland appeals the case there once Judge Cannon is appointed the next documents master, though the Heir heard Glenn Kirshner being concerned about whether that special master might be Giuliani, or John Eastman, etc. The Heir expects some commentators on the INN to insist that Merrick Garland is such a dang genius for somehow "foreseeing" that the special master would go, well maybe I shouldn't be doing this. Again the Heir believes that happened by chance, and that thus far it's Trump Team 2 (or more), Merrick Garland 0. Only until and unless the Heir's led to believe otherwise would he believe otherwise.

The Heir's made his campaign donations, and only plans to do so again next month. As such, he's disabled the proliferation of texts coming in asking for money, but he's concerned about the fact that they've been texting him 5-10 times a day, predicting the end of democracy if he doesn't regularly donate an amount he actually can't afford to donate. He's already been there in 2004 when they told him that if Impulsive gets a second term, we won't recognize our country after Impulsive's term ends. Of course they conveniently ignored their own prediction, because by the time Impulsive's term came to an end, everyone was excited about Funny Named Skinny Kid. So the Heir's wondering, -if- the Donkeys For The People lose the races they wanted to win this time around, what chance is there that someone's going to text him the Wednesday after giving him a guilt trip about not having donated enough, and trying to blame -him- for the "end" of democracy? Months ago we did a base share here about the importance of keeping perspective regarding the perception of democracy, and we believe our general messaging still stands now even though we're not suggesting that democracy is "safe" in any way shape or form. But here's another thing the Heir believes is going to happen. -If- the Donkeys For The People -do- win the races they want to win, some wise guy will go on INN and point that a Donkey victory by itself will not guarantee the safety of democracy. Well of course it won't, because the Heir sees the "end of democracy" talking point as a corrollary to the false belief that "it's only a democracy if my candidate wins," and it wouldn't surprise him in the least if the Elephantine Elitists plagiarize these talking point memos. Remember people: it ain't necessarily so. In the meantime the Heir hopes to get very limited texts going forward, and he might end up disabling those as well.

The Heir was considering writing to his Congresswoman and requesting his own personal box of Top Secret documents, citing the Aileen Cannon ruling as precedent. But he's put that off to see whether we as a country have the good sense to make sure that this "Special Master" has both proper clearance and need-to-know with the documents. He doubts this is going to happen, because he believes that whoever gets chosen is likely going to be some kind of political celebrity who doesn't have clearance -or- need-to-know for -anything-, let alone the displayed menu at the ice cream massage parlor. He was seeing whether there was any scintillating wisdom as a witty rejoinder to the Aileen Cannon ruling in the Insurgent News Network, and thus far he's come back empty handed. All he found was a video with a title saying that Aileen Cannon doesn't care about the rule of law, which the Heir scores as a bit Captain Obvious. But once they appoint completely the wrong person to "review" the documents, and most certainly send copies to the Kremlin and Beijing, and Tehran and Pyongyang, that's when the Heir wants to make his move in the most unlooked for and scintillating way possible. That's because absolutely nobody's doing that. Nobody. Except the Heir. That clues you into how Tropical Soul is the way, because all the other "ways" inevitably lead to dead ends.

One of these fine days we're going to get back on audio. But in the meantime, I the Mentor have observed that it's recently unusual for us to be fixated on one topic in the shares base. But as if the documents case against Trump weren't so irreparably damaged enough, now the judge in the case appears likely to grant a "master" to review the classified documents that have been seized. The Heir sees it as highly unlikely that such a "master" would have clearance or even a need-to-know with the documents. The Heir's 90% sure it'll just be some ordinary Joe coming off the streets just happening to walk by the courthouse when the judge makes the decision. "Psst, hey buddy, wanna be the 'master' of classified documents you have no clearance to see whatsoever?" In the meantime, the Heir's heard about that one lady who got into a petty argument with another lady, and got in her car to try to mow down the other lady, and ended up killing an old man in the process, and he's having a hard time believing that the weaponized car case is completely disconnected from the documents case. He's observed how today's post-Ed Snowden generation truly believes that morality doesn't matter as reinforced by the now-OJ nature of the documents case, so it's not surprising that some lady thinks she can resolve an argument with another lady by attempted (and actual) vehicular homicide, and not even think for a second as to the moral implications. He thinks it may have been over a handsome stranger at the clubs both ladies had a thing for. The Heir's wondering whether the documents case should really be all that much covered to the exclusion, for example, of reports on audio regarding the status/risk of monkeypox or polio in Bachelor Blue State, now he's 90% sure Trump will get off scot-free from the documents case, whereas someone like you or I would end up doing 50 years hard labor. Truly, what else is there left to cover in the documents case that's still of true national relevance?

The other day the Heir objected to making the affidavit public. But now that it's done, his response is, "Now You've Done It." He believes the case against Trump is now irreparably damaged, and though the conventional thinking is that he's going to get indicted, that's probably as far as it's going to go where the secret documents case is concerned. The public already knows too much, and even the "unredacted" portions the Heir believes to be overly sensitive to national security. The slogan argument of "inquiring minds want to know" the Heir doesn't see as an adequate enough reason for this security breach, and he believes the judge acted more out of public pressure than a true balance between confidentiality and freedom of the press. The search at Maralago is now so much public knowledge that the only jury who will be fair and impartial is one the Heir believes will inevitably clear Trump of any and all wrongdoing, and he (either the Heir -or- Trump) will go out on the court steps claiming he's "exonerated," almost like how the Heir sees Michael Jackson of being posthumously "exonerated" of -ever- attacking the boys, and that's another thing. Even now, the Heir still perceives the morally outraged outside of Neverland with their pitchforks and their torches, and he doesn't think Michael Jackson was ever held accountable. But back to the secret documents case, the Insurgent News Network believes that the case got started when the National Archives found out they were missing the traditional letter in the drawer Obama left for Trump, and that's when they found out there were boxes of classified documents at Maralago, and they needed to call in the DOJ. No-one's saying whether Trump left a letter for Biden, but the Heir thinks that if he did, the letter likely contained only two words, and they're not Happy Birthday.

The Heir disagrees with the judge saying that the affidavit must be made public in some fashion, because the Heir believes that doing so is unprecedented and endangers national security. But he also believes both the judge and the judge's staff were intimidated both by the Trumpists and the apparently Trumpist-sympathetic press. The Heir doesn't want hear anything more about the so-called "Fourth Estate," because does that mean We The People are merely the "Fifth Estate?" The Heir wonders why a corporate conglomerate "press" has more rights than the people, and frankly the Heir doesn't care if he is very likely to be in the vast minority of any given poll that asks whether the affidavit should be effectively -breached- that answers No to said poll. This the Heir sees as yet another black eye on the press, particularly six months after they pushed an interview of an "expert" that suggested that Russia wasn't going to attack Ukraine about a week or two before Russia did so. What's next? That the same press wants to remove all the black bars in the affidavit, and reveal who's W1, W2, CW, V? The Heir's not sure whether Merrick Garland, whom the Insurgent News Network suggests has defeated Trump at every turn, ever anticipated the judge's preliminary decision, so the Heir's not sure Merrick Garland is all that bullet-proof. But the Heir wants to see a -separate- search with respect to a -separate- case unrelated to Trump or even politics at large, with a -separate- affidavit and search warrant, and see whether that -separate- judge bows to pressure to breach the affidavit in -that- search. If not, the Heir asks what's the real difference between the two investigations if they're conducted by the book the same way respecting the same level of confidentiality?

The Heir is so kind and tender-hearted that he wouldn't even hurt a lantern-fly, a pest that threatens crops in Bachelor Blue State. He's leery of New York's official stance that people squash said bugs on sight, partly because it might lead to an anti-bug stance in general, and that he wonders whether citizen-bug-squashing is really making a dent in the lantern-fly population. The directors of agriculture will have to come up with a more effective strategy, like maybe training goats to eat lantern flies, or breeding lantern-fly-eating-specific praying mantises. But while the Heir's kind to the bugs, he's -not- kind to Kevin McCarthy for threatening to obstruct justice in an official governmental manner if the Elephantines win back the House, in making intimidating remarks with respect to Merrick Garland. He disagrees with Lawrence O'Donnell's apparent stance that McCarthy should be ignored, and apparently so does Glenn Kirshner, whom the Heir's noticed as citing the US law code on his channels against the offense of Accessory After The Fact. We shouldn't politicize the process of justice just because an ally to the politicians had his home searched, because look at it this way: Giuliani. The Heir's seen Colbert making fun of Giuliani's drinking habit, and while the Heir simultaneouly laughs at it and questions its tasteful value, it reminds him that sooner or later Giuliani's going to get pulled over for a DUI, and obstensibly get arrested. Once that happens, The Kevin McCarthy's and the Elephantine politicians will threaten the city of New York with subpoenas to testify before a committee if they win back the House regarding the "illegality" of Giuliani being arrested for a DUI just because they probably also see Giuliani as an ally. Such subpoenas into fake "illegality" the Heir believes themselves also to be illegal, and he's getting ready to make a citizen's arrest of Kevin McCarthy, giving him the full perp walk and everything in front of the cameras, so be warned Kevin McCarthy: be sure to clear your schedule and your office desks for when the Heir himself arrives with a No Knock Warrant.

The Heir believes the progressives are obsessively focused on the Secret Service deleted texts. He kind of heard about the issue in passing on audio, and while he does agree we need to get to the bottom of why the texts were deleted, he's never thought about it that much. So he goes on visual with Colbert to see a progressive cable show host as well as a member of Congress talking about the issue, but only starting in the middle rather than the beginning of their explanation. The Heir had to go to Wikipedia to get actually collated info about the deleted texts (albeit in a six-line paragraph as of this writing and not a separate article), and he eventually also went to Glenn Kirshner's youtube channel. To the credit of both, the Heir had an explanation as to what the issue is about, but no explanation for why the progressives seem to want to make conspiracy theories about it and not call for the January 6th Committee to call actual Secret Service agents to testify. If it has to do with classified info, obviously it'll be closed testimony, but the Heir's pretty sure that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney will tell the public about what they learned (i.e., non-classified). The Heir sees the progressive conspiracy theory as being to the effect of Trump "made" the Secret Service delete the texts because he's so scary and invincible and almighty-powerful, despite losing reelection with the biggest number of votes for the winner in all of American history. The progressives will always go to the trope of the invincible adversary against whom all are defenseless. That's why the Heir believes the cable host misportrayed the possibility of agents texting goodbye to the their loved ones as apparent "evidence" of said invincibility. Somehow opening the door of a car to make sure there aren't any bombs that'll go off in your face pales against a mob that includes some shirtless guy in Valkyrie Horns. Also fueling the possibility of conspiracy theories is the notion that the texts are just outright gone forever, even though the Heir's sure the NSA has copies, and may quietly and/or classfiedly share them with the Committee upon request. Very convenient the Heir thinks for the progressives to want to pretend that if no explanation is given as to why the texts were deleted, then it must be Trump who magically "made" the Secret Service delete those texts. It's kind of how astronomers criticize how people think about UFO's. Their criticism is people believing that if the flying object is -unidentified- then it "must" be aliens. Of course the other wrinkle here is that -if- agents testify to the committee that Trump "made" the Secret Service delete the emails, the Heir's sure the progressives will resort to "see we told you so," which once made is a profoundly repugnant and faithless and disrespectful response to there being more information about something people want to know more about. All these are further reasons the Heir does not consider himself progressive, because he want to -conserve- knowledge and common sense where the texts at least are concerned.

The Heir's just about had it with card chip readers. Over 50% of the time he puts his card into the chip slot at the shops, it gets rejected with an Input Canceled error. The system wants to blame his card, and by extension, -him- for the failure, instead of the system taking responsibility for largely defective card chip readers. His card is only 2-3 years old, hardly enough for the chip to just fail in his card, so he's not going to bother getting a reissue, since he's 90% sure that the reissue will fail as well. He ends up having to use the strip anyway, even with all the largely unsubstantiated rumors of it somehow not being safe. The fact is, he's had some kind of card for 35-40 years and he's -never- had a personal instance where he got ripped off because he was using the stripe. He's always looked at his balance, and it was always correct. He thinks it's the spendthrifties that were the biggest victim 20 years ago, and he doesn't think it was the strip but rather the fact that Target at the time insisted on using touchscreens for people to type their PINs into, making it impossible to cover up what you're typing while also making sure your PIN was correct. They eventually replaced these with actual number pads. So say what you will about how "great" card chips are and how "terrible" card strips are, the Heir's going to go with what works, the least resistance, because the supposed greatness of card chips is yet another unchallenged claim in which the end user who always gets blamed for a bad chip doesn't get their equal time. Like big tech trying to tell people that one thing shall replace another, it's just a marketing campaign, and not the actual truth of things.