Mish Mash Monday! Lots of stuff to talk about that happened over the weekend.
Monday, October 12, 2026 · 59 min
Kevin starts with the New York mayor getting shouted down at a rally and the filtered audio that followed, then detours into a long story about his own commercial property, a tripled tax bill, and the city councilman who wanted to run him off it. The two stories end up being the same story: what happens when the people running a city stop thinking of themselves as administrators and start thinking of themselves as kings. Plus the bots call in on Putin's ceasefire, Iran's enrichment talks, Kid Rock and Eminem's Christian album, and the Columbus statue fight.
In this show
- 0:00Monday morning, mystery tea, and the week ahead
- 5:45The not-a-doctor, not-a-lawyer song
- 7:45Mamdani, protest signs, and the hypocrisy problem
- 14:30The tripled tax bill and the councilman who wanted my building
- 25:45The $500 cleanup job and the tools that never came back
- 32:30Why Mamdani governs like he's king for a day
- 35:30Shouted down at the rally, and the filtered audio
- 40:00Putin's ceasefire and the strikes hours later
- 42:45Iran, enrichment, and the dual power structure
- 48:15Kid Rock, Eminem, and a Christian album
- 52:30Columbus statues and picking off one percent at a time
- 56:45Wednesday's clip show and Technology Tuesday
Show notes
A Monday mishmash that turns into one argument. Kevin walks through the Mamdani rally blowup over the weekend, the audio that got cleaned up afterward, and the left eating its own and calling it a CIA psyop. Along the way he tells the whole saga of his commercial building in town, the building inspector, the fines, the window, and the two guys he paid to clean the place up who took his money and his tools. The point of the detour: leadership at every level has drifted from representing people to ruling them.
- Why he'd call Mamdani a radical Islamist rather than a radical leftist, and why he thinks the man is first and foremost a very good actor
- Protest signs that don't survive one follow-up question, and the "kill the fascists" logic problem
- The property tax bill that tripled overnight, and the councilman who'd made an offer on the building six months earlier
- Boarded-up windows, opaque glass, soffits, shrubs, and what "approved repair" apparently means
- The $500 cleanup job, the half payment, the pictures of the wrong side of the building, and the tools that never came back
- Free buses, the city grocery stores, and the new membership card you need to buy food but not to vote
- The rally audio filtered to make the chanting sound far away when the crowd was right in his face
- Putin announcing a ceasefire and hitting Kharkiv power plants hours later, and whether the rogue-military explanation gives him cover he doesn't deserve
- Why Iran negotiating down from 60% enrichment is itself a confession, and why the Revolutionary Guard running the program separately makes any deal theater
- Kid Rock's childlike, almost Peter-like posture toward the gospel, and what happens when Eminem writes theology without meaning to
- Columbus statues, pendulum swings, and picking off one percent at a time
- Coming up: Technology Tuesday on data centers and tech giants in the election, and a Wednesday clip show from worldwide headquarters at 9 Eastern