Just One Thing
This speaks for itself...a remarkable story. I guess one possible implication is that the Secret Service was corrupted under Trump, or at least that's what the Biden DHS would like to look into. I have no prediction on what they'll find but this sure is interesting.
Today's Interesting Guests
Adam Rizzieri is the cofounder and chief marketing officer of Agency Partner Interactive: Agency Partner Internet Marketing Company I Web Design & Digital Marketing We'll discuss the trend that I find unfortunate for so many CEOs to involve their companies in controversial issues although there has been little of that regarding the Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v Wade. So the question is: From a business perspective how should business owners and managers think about having their company take a position on "hot-button" social and political issues.
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Troy Helming is the Founder/CEO of EarthGrid, a company that aims to revolutionize tunnel-boring technology by using high-energy tunnelers rather than fancy versions of traditional physical drilling. Troy is a modern-day industrialist, an innovator, an elite athlete, and a clean energy executive. As a creator, he’s founded companies that have generated more than $35 Billion of economic impact to date and invented 2 technologies that have led to over 80 clean energy patent claims. (The "thumbnail" picture with today's blog is of a modern drill but basically using old technology, from Elon Musk's Boring Company.)
Earthgrid aims to re-wire the USA using super-cheap tunnel tech (newatlas.com)
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Rabbi Raphael Leban is the director of The Jewish Experience in Denver. Our occasional "Ross and the Rabbi" segments are always a hit with listeners and I hope today's conversation will be so as well. The Jewish Experience - Denver, CO - The Jewish Experience | Denver
Other Stuff
As I've said repeatedly, the January 6 Committee hearings aren't telling us a new story as much as they're taking some sentences that had periods or question marks at the end and replacing them with exclamation points. We knew Trump was derelict in his duty that day; now we know just how focused he was on being intentionally so, such as when he decided to reshoot a video message, taking out a statement that "the election is over." My take on Trump is simple: At this point it doesn't matter if you like his policies and it really doesn't even matter if you believe the lies about a stolen election. What matters is that he ignored pleas from his closest advisors and family members to tell his supports to stop their attack on the Capitol and refused to do so.
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This faces BIG hurdles so I'll only believe it when I see working, it but would be huge if true: Turkey, U.N. Officials Say Deal Reached With Russia, Ukraine on Grain Exports
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Following up on a story I told yesterday about testing a new bridge's structural integrity by driving a whole bunch of full dump trucks on it simultaneously (how would you like to have been one of those drivers?) a listener sent me this story, roughly an American version of the same thing:
Query: How Many U.S. Tanks Could A W. German Bridge Support? Try 34 - The Washington Post
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A good example of the difference between conservatives and libertarians: Schumer's legal weed bill is finally here - POLITICO
I'm in favor of this even though I've never ingested (or sold or bought) cannabis in any form. Conservatives often don't actually believe in freedom, and I'm talking about freedom for adults...I am not in support of minors having access to this stuff.
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Two more brilliant pieces by Bjorn Lomborg: The Rich World’s Climate Hypocrisy - WSJ
How the Climate Elite Spread Misery - WSJ
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Lucky to be alive: Will Toor, Colorado energy czar, injured, rescued after fall in RMNP (coloradosun.com)
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Tina Peters REALLY deserves to go to jail.
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Dr. Amazon will see you now: Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 billion (cnbc.com)
Today's Video (and photo)
OK, this is exceedingly silly but yesterday on the show I mentioned that I have a Monty Python Bok (no that's not a typo) that has a picture in it that's clearly half of a copy of a Renaissance piece with the artist having messed up the hands of the Virgin Mary, then getting frustrated and scribbling out part of the picture and writing "Dammit Dammit Dammit" on what looks like a drawing
At some point after buying the book I was walking down Oak Street in Chicago and went into an art gallery where I saw a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, arguably the first great artist of the Renaissance, and almost certainly the first great northern European Renaissance artist. In short, I bought the woodcut...although in hindsight I spent way too much for it.
So, here are pictures of the Monty Python Bok image, then the Dürer woodcut, and then an unbelievable Monty Python video about Dürer that I'd never seen before last night when I started looking for the other stuff to share with you.
Josh Hawley is an embarrassment; thus he deserves to be embarrassed. Like this:
Game camera catches rarely heard mountain lion mating call. This was in Roxborough State Park which is roughly 5 miles south of Ken Caryl and southwest of Highlands Ranch.