Southpaws

Jack and Katy are off this week, so Darren discussed these topics:

The United States Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump’s claim of executive privilege in trying to stop the National Archives from sharing documents to the January 6 Committee.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was ordered to turn over any documents about his actions and movements on January 6, 2021. He was found to be violating the Texas law on open records.

Sidney Blumenthal wrote an article for The Guardian saying that the insurrection was not the coup, rather that the insurrection was born out of the attempted coup.

Conservative talker Dan Bongino was suspended by YouTube for violating Terms of Service after he posted a video saying “masks don’t work” to protect you from Covid-19.

DirecTV is cancelling conservative outlet OANN when its contract expires.

A judge ordered “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli to repay $64 Million for increasing the price of an essential HIV drug by 4000%.

Scientists have found preliminary evidence that the Epstein-Barr virus may cause Multiple Sclerosis.

And Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) is calling for the Capitol Police to investigate Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) after she said on Sebastian Gorka’s radio show that “Second Amendment rights” should be used against Democrats.

Jack and Katy are off this week, so Darren discussed these topics:

The National Archives received forged certificates of ascertainment declaring Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election from his supporters in Arizona and Michigan.

Trump’s efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 election are exposed by open records requests.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) blasted Democrats for turning their backs on the working class.

Why are many vaccinated people getting Covid-19?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) was banned from Twitter and given a 24-hour ban on Facebook for spreading Covid lies.

Darren reiterated that not all speech is protected…nor should it be.

And Democratic National Committee staffers vote to join a union.

Hammer Time: Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers called one of the people voting for league MVP a “bum.”

Off The Cuff: Two men were arrested for vandalism in Key West, Florida after bartenders recognized them as patrons who stiffed them on a tip.

Off The Cuff: A World War II soldier’s letter is finally delivered after 76 years.

Due to a scheduling issue on Darren’s part, Katy Steele could not join Darren and Jack for recording this episode. These topics were discussed:

Darren talked about contracting Covid-19 during the Christmas holiday.

Jack takes the science deniers and the conservatives to the woodshed.

Ignorance is going to kill us all.

Over 90% of the country is vaccinated against polio, measles, mumps, and rubella. So why is the vaccine rate for Covid at 62%? Could it be conservative lies?

Darren thinks it’s time for drastic measures to get Covid-19 under control.

The Chicago teachers union is standing up against the Democratic mayor to keep their rank and file safe by closing the schools during this latest Covid outbreak.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) signed a bill to lower teaching standards by allowing school support staff to substitute teach.

Thursday was the one-year anniversary of the traitorous attack on the US Capitol by evil violent conservative savages. When are we going to see justice?

And Rep. Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) are complaining about the Democrats bringing up the anniversary. They just don’t like that their tactics are being used against them.

Hammer Time: US District Court Judge Janis Sammartino trampled on the First Amendment by ruling that a podcast had to share unedited recordings with defendants in an upcoming criminal trial.

Hammer Time: Jared Schmeck told President Biden on Christmas “Let’s Go Brandon” during a call to NORAD. This isn’t the first controversy in the family.

Katy and Jack are off this week, so Darren presents another special “Best Of Southpaws.” By special request, this is a “Best Of Off The Cuff”, a collection of strange and bizarre news stories over the last 10 years. Here are the segments:

4-13-16: Four-year-old Bennett sent a love letter to Bailey, his crush, inviting her to “eat cheeses” with him.

7-21-17: A coffee company had to recall products because they contained the active ingredient in Viagra.

4-19-19: Part one: An Indiana man sued his parents after they threw away his collection of pornography.

9-3-21: Part two: An Indiana man was awarded $45,000 after he sued his parents for throwing away his pornography collection.

3-3-17: A Montcalm County, Michigan commissioner blamed chicken nuggets for allegedly driving while intoxicated.

11-25-15: A South Carolina strip club patron was punched in the face by a dancer after he told her she needed to lose weight.

4-6-16: A California man left his daughter in the car while he went to the strip club.

4-21-17: A Michigan man left his 1-year-old son in the car while he went into a strip club that Darren once worked at as the general manager.

8-30-19: An exotic dancer competing in the Miss Nude Australia contest accidentally set the club on fire.

4-30-21: A British teacher was banned from teaching for three years after he allegedly took students to a strip club.

9-24-21: A Boston school hired a party bus complete with stripper pole due to a shortage of bus drivers.

9-1-17: A gun was pulled as women fought over a notebook at a Novi, Michigan Wal-Mart.

3-15-19: A Michigan man was arrested after he shot a gun at a snow bank.

4-5-19: Arkansas neighbors were arrested after they shot each other with a gun while wearing a bulletproof vest.

5-24-19: A Washington state man shot himself in the groin. But he had more hidden surprises in his body.

9-25-20: An Oregon man shot himself in the groin.

9-25-20: A Vietnamese factory was caught washing used condoms and repackaging them as new.

9-18-20: A Maine woman is sought by authorities for putting dog poop in the mailboxes of Trump supporters.

3-26-21: A Texas wax museum had to remove their Donald Trump exhibit after guests attacked the wax statue.

8-20-21: A Michigan man had an emergency procedure performed to remove kidney beans from his urethra.

5-15-13: From the one year anniversary show: A Polk County, Florida school bus driver was arrested after she allegedly set up a fight between two teenage girls on her front lawn.

1-2-13: A Florida woman was arrested after assaulting her boyfriend over bad oral sex.

Katy and Jack are off this week, so Darren presents a very special “Best Of Southpaws,” which includes a brand new Hammer Time segment. On this episode:

Hammer Time: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says no to the Build Back Better program. When will an actual progressive primary him?

From July 22, 2015: Darren and Joe Elder were in the studio with Nate Kettle. On the phone were Jim Goerner and union official Buck Geno. The group was talking about the efforts in Michigan to have legislative districts redrawn every 10 years by a citizens committee instead of the party in power. This led to Joe and Nate getting into a shouting match about whether the Democrats were any better than the Republicans. In this clip, Joe correctly predicted that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would be screwed out of the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary.

From March 23, 2016: April Crowe, Jim Chase, and Stan Ward joined Darren in studio. Darren and Jim are angry about the Democratic Party shenanigans in the Arizona primary, so much so that Darren announced that he left the Democratic Party and that Democrats “would never get another g*ddamn penny” from him. Darren and April then got into a heated argument about independent voters being shut out of the primary process, even though 40% of voters are independent. Darren was so mad that he left the studio for the remainder of the show.

From July 14, 2017: KJ Millo joined Darren and Jack Prince. The trio discussed political fatigue, authoritarianism, organizing protests, the failures of the Democratic Party, and the lack of consequences for Trump and his supporters over comments they made.

From October 29, 2021: A rare blooper clip as Darren, Katy Steele, and Jack Prince talk about the shenanigans at the Hazard High School homecoming rally in Kentucky. Katy was a little distracted during the recording.

Katy and Jack will be off for the next couple of weeks, so Darren will be flying solo as he discusses these topics:

A San Francisco family filed a racial discrimination lawsuit after two different appraisals on their house showed strikingly different results based on who portrayed the owner.

Darren explains why automating the appraisal process is not the answer.

Spyware from an Israeli company was found installed on phones belonging to journalists, activists, and rights workers. The US Government only objected after the software was found on the phones of some State Department employees.

Soap opera star Ingo Rademacher is suing ABC after the network fired him from “General Hospital” for not getting a mandatory Covid vaccine. His chances of winning are not good.

John Pavlovitz said that selfishness is the illness that will destroy us.

A new Pew Research poll shows that 29% of the US population identifies as Atheist, Agnostic, or none of the above. So why does the US Supreme Court have a make up of 78% Catholics when they only make up 21% of the population?

A Michigan school superintendent said that state rules governing schools hamstrung officials at Oxford High School, where a classmate murdered four students.

New data showed more current and former military persons were involved in the traitorous storming of the US Capitol on January 6.

And the January 6 committee released text messages between Mark Meadows and members of Congress.

Darren, Katy, and Jack discuss these topics:

We tell the truth about Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) who passed away earlier this week.

When will Americans finally wake up to how badly they’re getting screwed by the oligarchs?

A plumber found an unknown amount of cash and checks hidden in the bathroom of Joel Osteen’s Houston mega church.

Katy and Jack dive down the rabbit hole of Christianity and capitalism.

Michigan State House Democrats all voted in favor of a supplemental budget to increase funding for law enforcement. What happened to “defund the police”?

Kellogg’s workers remain on strike after rejecting the latest contract offer. Meanwhile, members of the Reddit group “Anti-work” flooded the website Kellogg’s uses to hire scabs with fake applications and crashed the site.

And a Buffalo, New York Starbucks location unionized this week. This is not a victory, yet.

Hammer Time: Fox talking head Lara Logan compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

Off The Cuff: A man set fire to Fox’s Christmas tree.

Off The Cuff: An Italian dentist tried using a silicone arm to avoid the Covid-19 vaccine.

Darren, Katy, and Jack discuss these topics:

We talk about the shooting at the Oxford, Michigan high school Tuesday that killed four students.

After we recorded this episode, prosecutors announced involuntary manslaughter charges against the parents of the shooter.

The shooter’s mother posted a now removed blog from November 2016 praising Donald Trump.

How do we fix this? We can’t rely on legislation.

An Alabama woman won a $2.1 Million verdict against Walmart after they wrongfully accused her of shoplifting.

A tentative agreement has been reached in the Kellogg’s strike.

Germany is locking down the unvaccinated to combat Covid-19.

And lab created organic robots are replicating on their own.

Hammer Time: Michigan State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) made disgusting comments a day after the Oxford High School shooting.

Darren, Katy, and Jack discuss these topics:

We analyze the potential fallout of the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal.

Is it "open season" on left leaning protesters?

Three Georgia men were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

The former Glynn County, Georgia district attorney was indicted by a grand jury on charges of obstructing the Ahmaud Arbery case.

Spaniards are revolting against American landlords who are evicting tenants.

27 homes were damaged in Flint, Michigan after a house explosion that killed two people. This is not an anomaly.

Old gas pipelines have created disasters across the country.

And we end the show with a spirited discussion about corrupt union leaders.

Once upon a time, I was creative when it came to breaks and rejoinders when we were on the Kentwood radio station. I found this digging through the archives and totally forgot that this aired. So here's a flashback.