Peculiar Journeys

A bit of casino management plus a story about growing up being bullied and how that taught me that words, no matter how hateful, are ever the same as actual violence.

New format ideas explored. Having fun with interstitial. Plus two shorts that deal with our brutal American past and dealing with those weaponizing our need for constant affirmation.

In a new shift, the PJ podcast is expending some to include something truly specific to me — my thoughts on the day’s news and culture at large. Questions to ponder: do the Woke and White Nationalists actually agree fundamentally? Are the protests becoming less about black lives and more about unhappy Bernie Bots?

Plus a piece about one of the oddest days in the casino I’ve encountered in over a year.

A bit of advice to those involved in the service industry and a disclaimer that being a Traditional Liberal ain’t a bad club to belong to.

A kid gets shot in the neck and bleeds all over the casino floor and, after acknowledging obvious white privilege the question remains — what’s next?

Just following the Fourth of July, Don relates another anti-masker and then discusses the case of Colorado’s Kindness Yoga, a business destroyed by faux activists using the current civil rights movement to put a true ally in his place.

Shysters and con men are as Las Vegas as are sequined thongs and half-drunk cocktails. Today Don gives a quick triptych of scams he’s had to field on the casino floor.

As we weather both the pandemic and the civil rights protests, the same tactics used by McCarthy in the fifties is rearing it’s pernicious head plus a few moments of the re-opening of Las Vegas from the Wild Wild West.

The subject of being slowly basted to become a turkey for Jesus Christ is on the docket today as well as a breakdown of the attempted new American narrative frame being crafted by #BLM.

The world is on fire (as it has so many times before) and I’m taken to naval-gaze at my own complete obsolescence in American culture as well as a quick couple of stories complementary to the fallout of massive protests against police brutality.