Roxanne's Kilroy‑Sized Show Notes  — July  1, 2025

🎩 Opening Chaos, Literally

Tornado‑worthy West Virginia thunderclaps knock the station offline for ten minutes; Roxanne utters the day’s password—“outage”—while rebooting the router with prayers to Nikola Tesla and duct tape.

Instant fear: every new thunder roll could yank the plug again. So it goes. ⚡

🗳️ Senate’s “Big Bastard Bill” (BBB = Big Bad Banana‑Republic?)

Passes by a single beard: VP “Guyliner” breaks tie, bragging he’s “the first veep in a century with facial hair—her name’s Usha.” 🧔‍♀️

Slaps a surprise excise tax on wind & solar. Half the GOP senators, including mystified Lisa Murkowski, learn about it after voting. Lindsey “Lady G” Graham: “It’s a secret, I guess.”

Pours $160 B into ICE—10,000 extra agents, shiny new detention “villages.” Roxanne: “Concentration camps in the land of purple mountain majesties. Yay, freedom.”

Senator Murkowski votes aye, gets zilch for Alaska, and still calls it “obligation to my people.” Host translation: “She shoved Alaskans into the bear pit.”

🧮 Shoestring Economics, or How to Beg Politely During a Thunderstorm

June closed $1,130 in the red; July starts with a $300 “Bruce & Karen Memorial Challenge.”

Micah shouts “💩 the BBB!” — kicks in $50; Sylvie matches. Charlene piles on. Daily survival = ≈$600.

Refrain: “Ratings & reviews are the lifeblood that tell the algorithm we exist, because Procter & Gamble sure won’t.”

💥 Immigration & the New Age of Fear

While senators nap, ICE gets its gold card. Roxanne recounts a Cuban man dying in Florida custody and warns “brown workers are vanishing from LA job sites—citizenship be damned.”

Quote of the day: “If you’re brown, you’re keeping your head down.”

🌬️ Renewable Energy, Now with Sin Tax

Excise hits turbines and solar arrays smack in red‑state prairie. GOP baffled: “Who slipped that in?” Roxanne: “Check your own pockets, Senator.”

🥊 Verbal Heavyweights

Tuberville calls immigrants “rats.” Host retorts: “Tommy the Tuber doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, which is everything.”

Rand Paul whines about deficits—after voting for $7 B bunker‑buster bombs.

Bernie Sanders roars: BBB is “the most dangerous bill in modern history,” trading Medicaid for megayachts. 🚢

🎂 & 🎻 Personal Interludes While Rome Smolders

Happy birthday to progressive‑talk godfather Mike Malloy.

Toast to Roxanne’s parents’ 65th anniversary—married in the very front yard “of the crumbling family mansion.”

Host celebrates new pacemaker rhythm: “Heart finally sounds like a heart, not a Maytag on spin.”

🛰️ Meteorological Foreshadowing

Continuous storm commentary: “Clouds, thunder, lightning, rain—Mother Nature’s filibuster.”

Broadcast ends mid‑sentence when power ghosts away. The final words? “If we drop, blame Zeus, not me.”

📢 Call to Do‑Something‑ness

Leave a review, toss a nickel, join the Horn chat (moderated by Roger, Chief Agronomist & Bud‑Trimmer Emeritus).

Password tomorrow? With luck, “electricity.”

🕊️ “The maggots in the Senate think folks aren’t dying fast enough,” Roxanne sighs. “Meanwhile we keep the mics hot, even if the grid isn’t.”

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