Transcript
It’s Wednesday, November 19, 2025. I’m allegedly Jim Treacher.
And I hope you can hear this, and/or read this, because the internet stopped working yesterday. At the time I’m recording this, nobody knows why.
Something called Cloudflare went down, and Twitter, ChatGPT, and a bunch of other stuff that people use just stopped working. I don’t know why.
Cloudflare has now put out a statement that their “services are currently operating normally,” blah, blah, blah. “Our engineering teams continue to closely monitor the problem,” and so forth. Yes, yes, yes.
One of the Cloudflare guys is promising to tell us what happened. So we’ll see.
Usually when an executive or a politician or somebody in power promises transparency, it just means their excuses are thin enough to see through. But maybe this time it’ll be different.
It is a reminder of how fragile all this stuff is. We’ve kind of offloaded the entire apparatus of Western civilization onto these machines that most of us don’t understand. I certainly don’t.
And now we’re becoming increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence that I certainly don’t understand. The people who program these things don’t seem to understand them. And now they can collapse at any instant. And maybe we’ll find out why, maybe we won’t.
Maybe it was a bad idea to do all this. Maybe we should just go back to buying things with green paper, and reading things on paper, and other things that have to do with paper. Like actual paper. Instead of screens.
I know, I’m old. I’m an old person. I remember a time before screens were everything. We just had one screen in the house. It was the TV. And you could barely see it from across the room.
Speaking of old people… Trump is promising that both McDonald’s and Ozempic are going to lower prices.
So now they just need to start including those injectors in Happy Meals.
Or just don’t eat that crap. Wendy’s is better anyway.
By the way, this is Transgender Awareness Week. I’m sure you were aware of that. I wasn’t, because I’m a bigot.
But it seems redundant, because every week is Transgender Awareness Week. We’re not allowed to ignore them. We’re not allowed to dismiss them or disagree with them. We have to be aware.
And you’d better be aware if you’re speaking in public. Tyler Robinson was not acting alone. He’s got a lot of friends, and some of them work in media.
I know that it’s Transgender Awareness Week because AOC tweeted about it. She said:
This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and every day.
“Exist authentically.” That’s an interesting turn of phrase for people whose entire reason for being is that they’re not authentic.
They think that their authentic body is the wrong one. That’s the whole point of it. They’re inauthentic. That’s the whole point of the trans thing, is that authenticity… doesn’t exist. Having a certain type of genitals is not authentic to them.
I didn’t write it. I’m just glad that feminists finally found some men they’re willing to defend.
And of course, what the trans lobby and their defenders want isn’t awareness. They want applause. They want you to stand and clap with tears in your eyes, or else you’re a bigot.
And if you get killed for disagreeing with them, they’ll do TikTok dances about it. They’ll celebrate. They’ll claim they’re the victims when they get fired for it, or they lie about it and they get in trouble for that.
Because they’re the good guys. And/or good gals. Or neither.
Speaking of things that don’t make sense: Last week the United States stopped producing pennies.
You know, those little copper coins with Abraham Lincoln’s picture on them? I used to see them all the time. I don’t see them much anymore.
By the time they stopped producing them, it was costing $3.69 — Nice! — just to produce a one-cent coin. Which should be of concern to anybody who can count past two.
And the U.S. Mint claims that stopping production on the penny will save $56 million a year. So in about 35 years, they’ll have enough to build another stealth bomber.
At The Atlantic, someone named Caity Weaver…
Spelled C-A-I-T-Y. Yeah.
…is very concerned about this penny stoppage. Pennies are still in circulation, and you can still pay for stuff with them, but they’re not being produced anymore. And she writes:
What, exactly, is the plan for all the pennies?
Many Americans—and many people who, though not American, enjoy watching from a safe distance as predictable fiascoes unfold in this theoretical superpower from week to week [That’s exhausting already]—find themselves now pondering one question. What is the United States going to do with all the pennies—all the pennies in take-a-penny-leave-a-penny trays, and cash registers, and couch cushions, and the coin purses of children, and Big Gulp cups full of pennies; all the pennies that are just lying around wherever—following the abrupt announcement that the country is no longer in the penny game and will stop minting them, effective immediately?
The answer appears to be nothing at all. There is no plan.
Okay.
I think this is supposed to be a humor article? And it’s making fun of the idea that there would be a plan, I think? But yeah, we don’t need a plan for a coin that nobody uses anymore.
I don’t remember the last time I had to dig a penny out of my pocket. I don’t even remember the last time I went to a Coinstar machine to dump all the pennies that I had. That was at least 10 years ago.
But if we’re looking for ideas of what to do with them, I just say melt them all down and make one giant penny. And then let Batman put it in his Batcave.
Which, if you’re a nerd, you get that joke. He’s got a giant penny in his Batcave, along with a dinosaur (like a T. Rex model) and a giant Joker playing card. Those are like the big souvenirs he’s got in the Batcave, for whatever reason.
Or maybe we can use the Grand Canyon… as a giant penny jar. Just dump them all in there.
Or we could use the leftover pennies to pay journalists exactly what they’re worth.
The other day I mentioned the journalistic double standard between antisemites on the right versus the left.
Variety, the Hollywood industry trade, did a big puff piece on a lefty Jew-hater named Hassan Piker. And at the same time, they’re very concerned about a righty Jew-hater named Nick Fuentes.
And now the Hollywood Reporter has a follow-up story on Dasha Nekrasova, the actress who was dropped by her talent agency for doing a podcast with Fuentes.
And it turns out her cancellation was pretty much the life’s work of somebody named Jonathan Daniel Brown. Who I’d never heard of, but apparently he’s a former child actor. And now he’s got a lot of free time on his hands, and he spent it basically harassing anybody who would listen about this woman, Dasha Nekrasova.
And it worked. He got her dropped by her agency. So congratulations to him, I guess.
I don’t blame the guy for being offended by Nick Fuentes. But meanwhile, Hasan Piker is just running around doing whatever he wants. Variety’s interviewing him. Nobody has a problem with that.
None of the lefties chanting “From the river to the sea” are in trouble for anything. They want Jews dead just as much as Nick Fuentes and the other groypers.
(Which is the name for the alt-right white nationalist guys... It’s something to do with frogs... I don’t know.)
It’s just a double standard. Again. And I guess nobody else has a problem with it. I’m the only one I know talking about it. I guess it’s just me.
Thank you to the people who’ve been asking about my dad. A while back I mentioned he’s been having some health problems, which I’ve been helping out with. He’s been having trouble getting around.
Today, we finally got a diagnosis. I won’t go into the details, but it’s basically the best-case scenario of what we were expecting. So now there’s a plan for treating it.
Mentally, that’s a load off. To know that, okay, there is a reason this is happening, and they know how to fix it. So that helps a lot. And the uncertainty… If you’ve ever had to deal with something like that, the uncertainty is… not the worst part, but it’s a bad part of it.
And so, having that relief is very nice. I hope you can hear that in my voice. I’m in a better mood today than I was yesterday.
He’s not out of the woods yet. But there is a path, so that helps.
Alright, I guess that’s all I had. Once again, thank you very much for listening. I’m trying to keep a consistent schedule here and put it out at the same time. I’m putting it out in the morning. Regardless of how long it is, or how good it is. I’m just trying to keep the momentum going, and I’m trying to improve my speaking skills.
I haven’t had to use my buzzer in a while, I just realized. I hope I haven’t been doing a bunch of um’s and uh’s and whatnot. I don’t think I have. When I listen back to it, I haven’t noticed that.
So that’s nice. That’s a nice little bonus. I’m learning how to speak more smoothly. And you get to listen to it. You get to pay to listen to it. Isn’t that great?
Alright, that’s it. See you later, seppos.
