1/. Want to know what the Government shutdown is about?
Let the most popular politician in the country and AOC explain it.
This is how you communicate in 2025 - short, to the point and totally believable......
2 minutes.....
2/. The SNL cold open with Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem.......6 minutes.....
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey!
3/. Two Democrats with a successful podcast.......telling it like it is, no BS!
When Donald Trump scheduled a press conference after a weekend in which rumors about his health swirled, two women in red-state Oklahoma launched a live stream for their more than 1 million followers on YouTube to speculate about the condition of “Cankles McTacoTits”, shortened to Canks “for expediency and spite”.
It was fitting for the profanity-laced, straight-talking liberal podcast I’ve Had It that quipped, after interviewing Barack Obama, that the former president has “big dick energy”.
Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan have risen up the podcast charts, buoyed by Democrats looking to commiserate and find their party’s answer to the bro-filled atmosphere that helped propel Trump’s victory in 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/05/ive-had-it-podcast-democrats-liberals?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4/. Tom Tomorrow and the shutdown....
5/. A list of the best magazine covers of the last few decades.....very interesting!
Despite all the groaning that “print is dead,” many people seem captivated by magazines lately: When Anna Wintour relinquished her editorship in June of Vogue, which she’s overseen for 37 years, it was national news; a memoir by the former Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter and a dishy nonfiction chronicle (by the New York Times reporter Michael M. Grynbaum) of Carter’s ex-employer, the luxury magazine publisher Condé Nast, made many summer reading lists. And even if magazines don’t hold the same cultural sway — or profits or attention spans — they once did, it’s undeniable that the people who make them, and the stories and images they’ve made, still have much to show us, not just about how we read and see, but about how we live. This has been true for nearly two centuries: Popular magazines like Scientific American and The Atlantic have both been continuously published since the mid-1800s.
6/. A new drama - Lesbian Hunting Wives.......or something.....SNL amusing.....3 minutes.....
7/. Need a new EV? Bob Lefsetz says consider a used EV. as a lot are coming off lease.......
You may not want to buy a new electric car, but when it comes to buying a used automobile…
America’s isolation is leaving it in a backwater. Especially when it comes to electric cars. If there were no tariffs on Chinese EVs, they’d wipe out the American manufacturers overnight, they’d dominate sales in the U.S. They’re that advanced, they’re that good and they’re not that expensive.
But as a result of our present Administration, the focus is now on coal and traditional fossil fuels. And this has become a tribal issue. Elon Musk may make electric cars, but really they’re for the coastal elites who believe climate change is real.
But your beliefs are no challenge to your pocketbook.
Used EVs are a stealth incursion into the market, they’re how electric cars are going to come to dominate the U.S. fleet. While GM and Ford are icing their EV investments/production, and as the conventional wisdom has people deciding on hybrids, the supposed best of both worlds, everybody is ignoring the obvious…
EVs REQUIRE ALMOST NO MAINTENANCE! https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2025/10/03/used-evs/
8/. My favourite SNL cast member, Sarah Sherman, is a concerned New Yorker......
A really funny 4 minutes on Weekend Update.....
9/. Democrats - read this if you want to win the next election.....
For close to a year, Democrats have been locked in debate over their path out of the wilderness. In party retreats and private Slack channels, along with testy exchanges on social media and strategic leaks to reporters, Democratic insiders have wrestled over the mistakes of the Biden administration and the shortcomings of the Harris campaign.
The stakes of those arguments have risen even higher in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, with the White House intensifying its crackdown on dissent, and MAGA leaders declaring holy war against the left.
But an air of denial — and, more recently, panic — has pervaded the discussion about what comes next. It’s easy to say drastic reform is needed, but there’s no agreement on what this should look like. In practice, the party establishment is doing what party establishments always do: counting on the other side to self-destruct so it can squeak back into power while changing as little as possible.
10/. Just another Trump day......
11/. Want more friends? Read this article and learn from Gerry!
Ihave a friend named Gerry. I didn’t have much choice about being Gerry’s friend. If Gerry decides you’re going to be his friend, you don’t have much choice about it. He calls. He invites. He emails. If you don’t answer, if you can’t make it, if you make plans and then cancel, he doesn’t care. He keeps calling. He keeps inviting. He keeps emailing. The man is relentless in his mission to connect.
And guess what? Gerry has a lot of friends.
In a world where men suffer from unprecedented loneliness, Gerry is an extreme rarity: a man who works on his friendships. I can’t help wondering why he is so unique.
Gerry is 85, which is 36 years older than me. One weekend, he invited me to his cottage with several other friends, most of whom were around his age https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/oct/03/how-to-make-more-friends?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
12/. A little sick, but very, very funny! Golf video.....3 minutes.....
13/. A mini-DOGE operation comes to Florida......
The words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have been more prophetic.
“Expect a knock on the door from us,” Ingoglia warned on 1 October as he announced upcoming audits for Democratic-run cities and counties whose “excessively wasteful” pecuniary habits displeased the DeSantis administration.
The knock came soon enough, but in an unexpected place. Two armed police officers in bulletproof vests, sent by the criminal investigations division of Ingoglia’s Florida department of financial services, turned up at the home of a retired couple in Largo, demanding to know whether they had sent him a handwritten postcard that contained only three words: “You lack values.”
“It was designed to intimidate us,” said James O’Gara, a military veteran who said the non-threatening card was one of dozens he has sent to various local, state and national politicians as part of a campaign of peaceful protest. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/12/blaise-ingoglia-doge-florida-ron-desantis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
14/. A Weekend Update face-off with some familiar former hosts......3 minutes.....amusing.....
15/. The best movies on Netflix......Vanity Fair's picks.....
It can be hard to find the best movies on Netflix. We all understand the struggle of scrolling time—hours lost to wading through all of the Netflix movie options that could instead have been spent, you know, watching something. Or maybe something has been sitting patiently on your queue, waiting for someone to give you a nudge to finally press play. So, like a beacon in the night, here’s a guide to 25 of the best films within Netflix’s huge selection—including everything from landmark films to cult classics to Netflix-original hidden gems—updated monthly as films appear on and leave the platform. Take that, decision fatigue. (And if you want a list of the best shows on Netflix, we’ve got one of those too.)
16/. A new documentary on HBO about the abuses in the Alabama Prison system......
You will need a stiff drink to watch this......
When film-makers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman visited Alabama’s Easterling prison in 2019, they found a deceptively pleasant scene. Like Alabama’s 13 other prisons, Easterling largely prohibits media access, but allowed the documentarians to film its annual volunteer-run barbecue, a sunny day in which incarcerated men, most of them Black, ate fresh roasts to live music and sermons. On camera, men danced and smiled. But off camera, many more told a different story – horrific beatings, unreported stabbings, unimaginable violence swept under the rug and appalling conditions that “ain’t fit for human society”. Cries for help emerged from inside the sweltering, filthy dorms. When Jarecki approached the voices, a prison official shut down filming, claiming that it was unsafe for him to speak to the men without a police chaperone. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/12/documentary-the-alabama-solution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Today's DEI joke
A blind man walked into a cozy little restaurant and sat down at a corner table.
The owner, who was also the waiter, handed him a menu.
“Sir, I should tell you—I’m blind. I can’t read that. Just bring me a dirty fork from a previous customer. I’ll smell it and decide what to order.”
The owner raised an eyebrow, puzzled, but decided to play along.
He grabbed a greasy fork from the pile of dirty dishes and brought it over.
The blind man held the fork to his nose, inhaled deeply, and smiled.
“Ah, perfect. I’ll have the meatloaf with mashed potatoes.”
The owner nearly dropped his jaw. How in the world…?
Still, he went to the kitchen, told his wife—the cook—what had happened, and shook his head in disbelief.
The blind man enjoyed his meal and left.
A few days later, he returned. Once again, the owner accidentally handed him a menu.
“Sir, it’s me, the blind man. Remember? The fork trick.”
“Oh, right! Forgive me.” The owner fetched another dirty fork from the pile.
The blind man sniffed it, nodded, and said, “Mmm, macaroni and cheese with broccoli. I’ll take that.”
The owner’s eyes widened. Unbelievable! This guy can’t be real.
He hurried to the kitchen and told his wife, “I swear, he’s messing with me. Next time, I’ll put him to the test.”
The following week, the blind man came back.
The moment the owner spotted him walking in, he rushed to the kitchen.
“Mary,” he whispered to his wife, “do me a favor—rub this fork on your panties before I give it to him. Let’s see if he’s really that good.”
She gave him a suspicious look, then smirked and did it.
The owner, grinning mischievously, brought the fork straight to the blind man’s table.
“Good afternoon, sir! I remembered you this time—your fork is ready.”
The blind man took the fork, held it up to his nose, breathed in deeply… then broke into a wide grin.
“Well, well, well… I didn’t know Mary worked here.”
Today's hamster joke
Aaron, a mangy looking guy, walks into a very classy restaurant and orders a steak.
The waitress says: "I'm sorry, but I don't think you can pay for your meal."
Aaron admits, "You're right. I don't have any money, but if I show you something you haven't seen before, will you give me my supper?"
The waitress, both curious and compassionate, says, "Only if what you show me isn't risque."
"Deal!" says the guy and reaches into his coat pocket and pulls out a hamster. He puts the hamster on the ground and it runs across the room, directly to a piano.
The hamster then proceeds to climb up the piano, and starts playing Gershwin songs.
The waitress says, "You're right. I've never seen anything like that before. That hamster is truly good on the piano."
The guy sits back and enjoys a fine steak supper with all the trimmings.
Shortly thereafter, he asks the waitress, "Can I have a piece of that fine blueberry pie I see on the dessert cart over there?"
"Only if you got another miracle up your sleeve", says the waitress.
The guy reaches into his coat again and pulls out a frog.
He puts the frog on the table, and the frog starts to sing up a storm!
A stranger from a nearby table runs over to the guy and offers him $300 for the frog.
The guy says "It's a deal." He takes the three hundred and gives the stranger the frog.
The stranger runs out of the restaurant with dollar signs in his eyes and a big smile on his face.
The waitress says to the guy "Are you some kind of nut? You sold a singing frog for $300? It must have been worth millions!"
"No", says Aaron. "The hamster is also a ventriloquist."
Today's blind person joke
Husband and wife are waiting at the bus stop with their nine children.
A blind man joins them after a few minutes.
When the bus arrives, they find it overloaded and only the wife and the nine kids are able to fit onto the bus.
So the husband and the blind man decide to walk.
After a while, the husband gets irritated by the ticking of the stick of the blind man as he taps it on the sidewalk, and says to him, "Why don't you put a piece of rubber at the end of your stick? That ticking sound is driving me crazy."
The blind man replies, "If you had put a rubber at the end of YOUR stick, we'd be riding the bus!
Today's bonus joke
During my prostate exam I asked the Doctor "where should I put my pants?"
"Over there by mine" was not the answer I was expecting.
Today's blonde joke
John walked into a sports bar around 5:58 PM.
He sat down next to a very attractive blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV.
The 6 PM news was coming on. The news crew was covering the story Of a man on the ledge of a large building preparing to jump.
The blonde looked at Bob and said, "Do you think he'll jump?"
John said, "You know, I reckon he'll jump."
The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't."
John placed a $20 bill on the bar and said,"You're on!"
The blonde placed her money on the bar, and kept watching the scene on the telly. The guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death.
The blonde was very upset, but willingly handed her $20 to John "Fair's fair. Here's your money."
John replied, "I can't take your money". I saw this earlier on the 5 PM news, so I knew he would jump."
The blonde replied, "I did, too, but I didn't think he'd do it again."
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