California Dreaming
Hope this summer was happy and peaceful for all! I can’t complain myself, though it has been quite busy. We are settling into the new house…finally got to kick my feet up, as you can see & really try to appreciate finding a corner of LA that I can live with and boy have I! We are nestled into some “mountains.” Anywhere else these would be foothills—and they are called foothills mostly, but there isn’t too awful much to back them up. I love ‘em though & especially love the trees and animals that come with them. Coyotes and bears aren’t my favorite, but they too come with this territory. I’m very grateful for this place & for the fact that it has an OFFICE! So I will no longer be broadcasting out of the corner of a bedroom, AND I will be able to access my books in real time on-air. My only concern relates to that old G. Edward Griffin (or should we call him O.G. Edward Griffin?) interview of Norman Dodd who said one of his researchers was arrested (detained?) for a book he had on his shelf. Yikes! Most of my books scare me as they are, not even considering the possibility of arrest!!
A few more highlights of my summer…I had a birthday! Couple of my friends picked up on my long-time mantra, “I’m forty-something & always will be!” and got me a cake reflecting it…what do you think? I like it 🙂 I got some sweet gifts too, including one from my son who joined me at my mom’s house to “widowsit” as my brother, George the Friendly Truckdriver, calls it. Widowsitting involves a lot of black and white movies on TCM & a few ads for a brilliant book that ties Film Noir to the drinks served in the films. Happily my son snagged one for me. We now have a lifelong project of watching the movies while sipping the drinks. Lifelong because he and my daughter are now in college so I suspect our movie watching will slow to one or two a year.
My special guy, of course, stays with us so we’re not quite empty-nesters which is fine with me! He had a big 
birthday this summer & come hell or high water—or both combined in the form of Hurricane Hillary—I was not about to cancel his party, so I didn’t. Hillary was a nothing-burger as I expected (as you can see from the picture, it rained but that’s about it). Happily many stout-hearted families came by and a good time was had by all. Lots of Texas BBQ and even an amazing GF cake from Milk Bar that was delivered just in time despite the scary weather reports. Speaking of which, a guest at the party has a cousin who is a meteorologist who confessed that the pressure to hype storms is intense—it stands to reason whether you’re conspiranoid or just think it’s to drive TV watching.
One more thing…we took a trip to New Orleans this summer (ikr?) and to my delight the lobby of the hotel had—get this—a CHAMPAGNE VENDING MACHINE! I kid you not. Gotta love NOLA!
Alrighty…on with the show….or should I say, shows….
Dive Master Interviews
Dive Masters are subject-matter experts or principled thought leaders. Here are this month’s conversations with them. If you want to find these and all previous Dive Master Interviews–and only these interviews–click here.
Anthony Raimondo: Water, Land & the Global Agenda – Case Study Cali
Common Ground with Jeremy Kuzmarov: What do Zelensky & Tiananmen Square have in common?
Courtenay Turner & the Fabian Roots of Friedrich Hayek
Shane Cashman: From the Paranormal to the Conspiranoid
Common Ground w/ Jeremy Kuzmarov: Arctic Arms & Syrian Sins
Johnny Vedmore on the Pottinger Connection: From Gloria Steinem to Jeffrey Epstein
The Real Timeline…a Maryam Henein film about George Floyd
Common Ground w/ Jeremy Kuzmarov: Coups, Regime Change & AI at Home & Abroad
Sam MacRoberts: Fighting for Justice One Beehive at a Time
Buddy Dives
Buddy Dives are my conversations with other podcasters on their shows, my show or as a swapcast. For a complete catalog of these shows and only these shows, click here.
Joni & Monica tackle the Report from Iron Mountain
Highlight Reel: Summer Catch Up with Clint & Monica
FOR THE VIDEO WITH CLINT, CLICK HERE.
Union of the Unwanted: Two Wings of the Same Bird–Are the Rest Merely Feathers?
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Union of the Unwanted: What do AIDS, Ebola & CoViD have in common?
Hrvoje Moric & the Hidden Agenda Behind the RESTRICT Act
Union of the Unwanted: Homesteaders Round Table
Keith Knight: The State Is the Health of War
Highlight Reel: Angry Tiger Meets Monica & the Crowd Goes Wild
Deep Dives Index
Deep Dives are my original content a la the original Monica Perez Show on WSB where my superpower was news analysis. I take the biggest headline of the day or week and dive waaaay deep to give you everything you need to know to really understand the issue and more often than not, crack the code on the agenda as well!! For a complete index of Deep Dives and only Deep Dives, click here. **SORRY NO DEEP DIVES THIS WHOLE SUMMER!!! They will be back soon.**
Tweet of the Month
My husband just burst into a fit of coughing and hiccuping at the same time then said, “Man, that scorpion pepper is hotter than you’d think!”
Reminded me of this old far side ? pic.twitter.com/EdlSWGvAso— Monica Perez (@MonicaPerezShow) August 13, 2023
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Community Creations!
Many thanks to Mr. A. who contributed these beautiful pictures of the wonderful things he grows in Georgia! I don’t know what a “wood hog” is, but I’m sure it’s awesome! Next newsletter, I’ll show you his mushroom set-up…it’s trippy lol.
Blast From the Past
An Ode to Twitter…originally posted January 11, 2012
This Month’s Book Recommendation
The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng
I rarely read fiction these days, but since I wasn’t doing much work on the show, I thought I’d treat myself–unfortunately all my books are STILL in boxes. I found this lying around–no idea where it came from and was definitely cautious of anything critically acclaimed in the current cultural environment, but it was about the Pacific theater in World War Two–my father was there in the navy at that time (despite the birthday cake pictured above!) so I decided to give it a go. It was excellent!
I am trying to figure out how they drop a bottle of wine down the vending – machine chute without breaking it